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II. Central-South London—Herne-hill, providing for Lambeth, St. Saviour, St.
George-the-Martyr, St. Olave, Newington, Bermondsey, Camberwel), Penge. (Number of
licensed slaughterhouses in 1897, 91.)
III. South-East London—Greenwich-marshes, providing for Lewisham (excluding
Penere), Rotherhithe, Greenwich, Plumstead, Woolwich, Lee. (Number of licensed slaughterhouses
in 1897, 49.)
IV. North-West London—Willesden Junction, providing for Fulham, Hammersmith,
Chelsea, Westminster, Kensington, St. George Hanover-square, Paddington. (Number of
licensed slaughterhouses in 1897, 61.)
V. Central-North London—Islington Cattle Market, providing for St. James, Westminster,
Marylebone, Hampstead, St. Pancras, Islington, City of London, St. Luke, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Giles, Strand, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. (Number of licensed slaughterhouses
in 1897, 115.)
VI. North-West London—Hackney-marshes, providing for Hackney, Stoke Newington,
Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the-East, Limehouse, Mile-end
Old-town, Poplar. (Number of licensed slaughterhouses in 1897, 113.)
I have been enabled through the courtesy of the statistical officer to avail myself of the services of
Mr. Reid, formerly of the Public Health and now of the Statistical department, in considering the most
suitable position for the sites of these slaughterhouses in relation to the several cattle markets, and
this distribution would place the slaughterhouses within railway communication of the Islington
Cattle Market and the cattle markets in the neighbourhood of London. The greatest distance of any
part of London from the nearest slaughterhouse would practically not exceed six miles, and of course
for the greater part of the area of London would be much less, the average distance being somewhere
about three miles.
It has been thought undesirable to indicate too closely the exact locality of these sites, but
their position is sufficiently shown for the purposes of this report upon the accompanying map. This
map, which has been prepared for me by Mr. Reid, also shows approximately the areas which would be
served by each slaughterhouse, and the railway goods routes from the Cattle Market, Islington, to
each site. In the appendix will be found an explanatory memorandum by Mr. Reid, showing inter
alia the communication between the different lines of railway, and thus indicating the opportunities
which exist for the conveyance of cattle from markets within fifty miles of London to the proposed sites.
It is necessary in the next instance to consider the number of cattle which it may be expected
-will be slaughtered in these public slaughterhouses. With a view to obtaining information for this
purpose I obtained in 1892 and 1895 from the occupiers of private slaughterhouses in London the
average number of cattle killed per week in winter and summer. The figures thus obtained arenecessarily
only approximately correct, but those of the two years agree sufficiently to make me
regard them as reliable. I have in my annual reports published the total figures for London. I now
give them for each of the areas which would be served by these public slaughterhouses, taking thefigures
for 1895 as a basis—