View report page

30
The mortality in the Potteries is likewise reduced from an average of
Upwards of 40 per 100, to 31-8.
Mr. Lovett, the Inspector, has furnished me with an account of all
nuisances which have been dealt with during the year, dust removal
not being included.
I much regret that it has not been considered practicable to provide
certain localities with proper Sewerage, especially the District of
Earls' Court and Devonshire Terrace; places from which numerous
complaints are being received. Insuperable objections have also
sprung up against erecting public conveniences in some of our
thoroughfares, on account of the nuisance they might prove to those
living near.
The food supplied has appeared to me to have been of a superior
quality than that sold a year or two ago.
The Slaughter Houses have been from time to time examined by
the Inspector and myself.
Forty-seven Applications were received for the License of SlaughterHouses;
certain alterations, particularly with regard to ventilation
were ordered to be carried out, and only in two cases was the license
opposed, as no properly constructed Slaughter-House existed on the
premises.
The Cow-Sheds have likewise been from time to time visited
principally to cause the more frequent removal of manure and refuse
from the premises' during the hot weather.
We must also regret, that up to the present time, our efforts to
improve the health of the Inhabitants of the Potteries, have proved
abortive. The occupation of Pig Feeding and Boiling is still carried
on with impunity—Scientific Evidence adduced in our Courts of Law,
clearly shew the amount of the evil, and the steps necessary to be
taken to abate it, but from an alleged imformality in the order made
by the presiding Magistrate at the Police Court, and from a protective
clause in the "Nuisance Removal Act," we have not been able
satisfactorily to carry out any Sanitary measures. The subject however
has not been lost sight of, and it will again be brought under the
notice of the Sewers and Sanitary Committee.
Numbers of houses during the past year have been placed in a
much better Sanitary condition. The following is the list of works
reported upon to the Committee, and carried out under the superintendence
of myself and the Inspector.