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The Committee submitted, in an appendix to their Report, a
detailed statement with respect to each of the sheds, "for the
purpose of indicating improvements, or the nature of still existing
defects."
The several licenses were renewed at the usual time, excepting
in respect of premises which had not been amended in accordance
with your Vestry's requirements. The recommendation of the
Committee that sunken dungpits should be filled up, was complied
with in every instance, save one. In this case the license was
granted, and acting on the suggestion of the magistrates, your Vestry
took out a summons against the licensee in order to ascertain,
whether, on sanitary grounds, it was not proper and necessary that
the receptacle should be filled up so as to have the bottom on a
level with the yard? The magistrates, however, in due course,
refused to make the order and dismissed the summons. It may be
mentioned that the Justices refused to grant a particular license
on it being explained to them that the applicant, who did not keep
cows himself, sub-let the sheds belonging to him to two "registered
cowkeepers." The case was adjourned so as to enable the
tenants to apply in their own names, and they were subsequently
duly licensed.
Cowshed Refuse.—Speaking generally, it must be acknowledged
that the cowsheds are better kept than they formerly were;
more care and punctuality, however, are required in removing the
manure through the streets, the vehicles used being unfit for the
purpose, and giving rise to effluvium nuisance in transitu.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, AND MILKSHOPS
ORDER OF 1879.
Sanitary Supervision of Dairies and Cowsheds, &c.—The
Metropolitan Board of Works are the "Local Authority" under
this Order, which "provides for the registration of all persons
carrying on the trade of cow-keeper and purveyor of milk, etc.,"
and under which 11,777 persons have been registered, of whom
955 are the occupiers of licensed cowsheds. the remainder being
"dairymen or milk-sellers only." The Board state in their Annual