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and neglected to obtain transfers of the licenses. The applicants,
however, did not appear when the Kensington cases were called on,
and whilst your Vestry's Officers were present in the Court: but
they subsequently put in an appearance, and obtained their licenses
without difficulty or question.
The Committee recommended the institution of proceedings in
three cases against the licensees for breaches of the Bye-laws.
The proceedings were taken in two of the cases (in the third case
the license was transferred to another person) and the Magistrates
inflicted a penalty of £3 with costs in each case.
It may be mentioned that at the date of the passing of the
Slaughter-Houses Act in 1874, there were some 1,429 slaughterhouses
in the Metropolis: at the end of 1881 there were only
880. In Kensington the reduction has been from 54 to 28: the
business of a slaughterer of cattle has not been "established
anew" in the parish since 1874. A society has been started in
the Metropolis with the object of furthering slaughter-house
reform, viz., by the provision of public abattoirs, and the promotion
of painless methods of slaughtering. It has my best
wishes for its success, although I felt unable to accept an invitation
to occupy a seat on the Committee.
THE LICENSED COWSHEDS.
The licensed cowsheds are 22 in number, viz., 15 in the district
north of Uxbridge Road, and 7 in the remainder of the parish south
of that road. (Vide Table xii, Appendix for localities of premises and
names of licensees.) The several premises were inspected in the
month of September, by the Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes
Committee, who reported on them inter alia as follows:—
"In a Report on the Cowsheds by your Committee, dated August 4th, 1880,
reference was made to Provision 7 of the Regulations made by the Metropolitan
Board of Works (as "Local Authority" under the Contagious
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878), which requires that "every cowshed shall
be well paved with Stourbridge or other impervious brick, or other impervious
material, set with cement, properly bedded on concrete, with a
proper slope towards a gully-hole and it was stated that "with here
and there an exception, this provision has not been carried out. The