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the eleventh hour, tended still farther to complicate business at the
licensing sessions.
"Your Committee, however, had instructed the officers to adhere, in
all cases, to the 800 feet standard adopted by your Yestry. This
was done and in every case, save one, the Justices gave effect to the
recommendations of your Yestry, thus carrying out the decision they
had announced in 1878, viz., that in 1879 and afterwards, they
should insist on the 800 cubic feet rule for all cowsheds in this
parish, and they marked the several licenses for the number of cows
the respective sheds will accommodate on that measurement.
"In conformity with the instructions of your Yestry, the licenses of
three sheds, in Blechynden Mews, and of the triple shed in Archer
Mews, in the occupation severally of Messrs. Copperwheat, Salisbury,
White, and Skingle, were opposed : your Yestry's opinion, moreover,
that "the premises are unsatisfactory in construction, arrangement
and position, and are unfit for use as cowsheds," having, as directed,
been conveyed to the Local Authority. The Justices, however,
having viewed the premises decided at the adjourned meeting, held
on the 4th November, to renew the licenses: and taking into consideration
that Messrs. Copperwheat, Salisbury, and White are
weekly tenants only, they declined to make it a condition of the
renewal that the sheds should be opened up to the roof by removing
the ceilings of the sheds, which are stables in construction. The
Justices, however, are fully alive to the reasonableness of your
Yestry's views on the subject of ventilation, and have given effect to
them in all the other cowsheds, Mr. Skingle's shed in Archer Mews
excepted. This latter shed is an "infected place" at the present
moment, and not for the first time, owing to an outbreak of pleuropneumonia.
Mr. Skingle, it may be observed, is a dealer in cows,
and when he is busy as many as ten cows per week pass though his
shed, which consists of three very small stables. Two of these are
his own property, and he inhabits the rooms over them; the rooms
over the third shed being sub-let.
"Some inhabitants in the locality of Stratford Road opposed the
renewal of the license of Mr. Clarke's shed in that road. The
Chairman of the Bench, however, having viewed the premises, and
Mr. Clarke having consented to remove a portion of the staging for
fodder above the cows, the license was renewed.