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the County Council see fit to add it to the list, as, many
years ago, your Vestry requested the late Metropolitan Board
to do, but without success.
BRICK-BURNING.
Your Vestry requested the County Council, in 1889, to
add the business of a Brick-burner to the scheduled list of
offensive businesses. The Council, however, thought that
the business might be regulated by bye-laws, under the provisions
of the Local Government Act, 1888, and Section 23 of
the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882; and, under circumstances
set out in my last Annual Report (page 179), framed
bye-laws accordingly. The Local Government Board did
not confirm the bye-laws, being of opinion that the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, section 21, when it came into
operation, would enable Sanitary Authorities to cope with
nuisances due to this cause. The nuisance is a serious one,
causing great annoyance over a very large area. For many
years, including the year 1891, it was the cause of numerous
complaints in this Parish, so surely as the burning season
came round. In 1892 not a single complaint was received, a
striking fact, seeing that for the first time probably, since
I entered upon the duties of my office, no bricks were burned
at Wood Lane, Hammersmith, the reputed locality of the
nuisance, as it affects Kensington. Comment is needless.
LICENSED SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
Eleven of the 19 licensed slaughter-houses are in North
Kensington (i.e. the district north of Uxbridge Road), and
eight in South Kensington (i.e., the remainder of the Parish
south of Uxbridge Road). The names of the licensees, and
the localities of the premises, are set out in Table XI
(Appendix). The several premises were inspected, in July, by
the Works and Sanitary Committee, who reported on them as
follows:—