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The greatest weekly mortality in this District occurred in the week
ending October 24th, when 56 deaths were registered. During the preceding
week, the mean temperature of the air had fallen from 51.8° to 49.7°.
TRADES' NUISANCES.
The nuisance arising from the Refinery premises of Sir Anthony Rothschild
is still as had as it has ever been. No further attempts to mitigate
this health destroying nuisance appear to have been made. On the 24th
November there was escaping from the roof of the building by the side of
Peter's Court, a place densely inhabited by poor people, an irritating vapor
iu considerable volume, which was of so suffocating a nature, that the persons
living opposite said that it was then, and at other times, so bad that they
could scarcely breathe. The Inspector and myself have frequently experienced
similar effects while we were in the vicinity of these Works.
COW-HOUSES.
In consequence of the Cow-keepers not having carried out the instructions
of the Board as regards the regulations to be observed in conducting
their businesses, it was resolved that, in every case in which such instructions
had not been observed, the application for a renewal of the license for keeping
cows should be opposed. The cow-keepers however, memorialized the
Board on the subject, and it was resolved that a Committee should bo
appointed to confer with them respecting the regulations to be made in
reference to Cow-houses.
At the meeting held in pursuance of this resolution the regulations which
had been adopted by the Board were read and discussed by the Committee
and the Deputation of Cow-keepers; when the following regulations were
agreed and approved by the Deputation.
REGULATIONS FOR COW-HOUSES.
1.—Every cow-house shall be paved with flag paving or other noil-absorbent
material, set and bedded in cement, with a proper inclination to the foot of the stalls,
so as to drain into a channel leading by a fall of not less than 1½ inches in 10 feet
to a trapped gulley.