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or that the supply of sound meat had been in any way
curtailed, as a consequence of the large reduction.
THE LICENSED COWSHEDS.
The licensed cowsheds are 15 in number, viz., 9 in the
district north of Uxbridge Road, and 6 in the remainder of
the parish south of that road. The names of the licensees,
and the localities of the licensed premises, are set out in
Table XII (appendix) The several premises were inspected,
in July, by the Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee,
and were "found in fairly good sanitary condition."
The sheds, which in the aggregate are licensed for the
keeping of 189 cows, contained 126 cows only, at the time
of inspection.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, AND MILKSHOPS ORDER
OF 1879.
Sanitary Supervision of Dairies, Cowsheds, &c.—
The Metropolitan Board of Works is 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 upwards of 16,000 registrations
or transfers of registration, have been effected since the
Order first came into operation. We learn from the Board's
Annual Report, that during 1883, there were in the Metropolis
895 cowkeepers, keeping upwards of 10,000 cows in 1171
cowsheds. There were 231 dairies, and 1,941 shops exclusively
confined to the sale of milk and dairy produce; milk
was sold at 4,421 general shops also, and kept for sale in 516
dwellings, where there was no shop. The total number of
places at which cows were kept and milk sold in the metropolis
was 8,285.
The Board, in the Annual Report for 1882, stated that
"in the larger dairies and milk stores much improvement has