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efforts of the proprietor to prevent effluvium-nuisance have not
been altogether successful, as complaints are made from time to
time by inhabitants in the vicinity. The complaints are referred
to the Metropolitan Board, the local authority in regard to
offensive businesses. The Board, in the Annual Report for 1886,
states that "the improvement in the manner of conducting the
businesses" (of soap boiler and tallow melter) " has been continued
during the past year, and it has not been necessary to take
proceedings for the enforcement of the bye-laws in any case; " a
statement which I suspect would be traversed by many persons
residing in Kensington Square, Cheniston Gardens, etc.
Fat Extracting.—Two businesses are carried on in Tobin
Street, Notting Dale. They give rise, more or less, to effluviumnuisance,
notwithstanding improved arrangements and care on the
part of the proprietors. But the people living thereabout are
not of a particularly squeamish character, and do not often complain.
The Metropolitan Board, referring to this trade and that
of a fat melter, reports that " these businesses have been generally
well conducted during the year."
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
The licensed slaughter-houses, which in 1874 were 54 in
number, are now only 22, viz., 13 in North Kensington (i.e.,
the district north of Uxbridge Road), and 9 in South Kensington
(i.e., the remainder of the parish south of Uxbridge Road). The
names of the licensees, and the localities of the licensed premises,
are set out in Table XI. (Appendix). The several premises were
inspected, in July, by the Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes
Committee, who found thom to be " in a satisfactory condition."
Comparatively little slaughtering is now carried on, and on some
of the premises none at all, the licenses being kept up with the
view of maintaining the value of the premises. Wherever
animals were found in the lairs, it was observed that, in accordance
with a recommendation by the Committee, a supply of
water had been provided. Altogether, the state of affairs has