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fellmonger, tripe boiler, slaughterer of cattle, or any other
business which may hereafter be declared to be offensive by the
Metropolitan Board of Works and the Local Government Board.
The Justices sitting at Prescot Street continue to renew licenses
for the slaughtering of cattle as before, and all the powers vested
in this Board are continued, so that it will still be necessary for
the View Committee to inspect these premises, and oppose the
granting of such licenses as they may deem necessary, after
having received authority from you to do so.
The comparatively sudden stoppage by the Registrar-General
of the returns which we have received from him for so many
years led, temporarily, to a considerable inconvenience in the
sanitary department, but as you have arranged with the District
Registrars for regularly supplying me every Monday with a copy
of the returns furnished to the Registrar-General, I find myself
in a much better position than before, as I receive them three
days earlier. I consider the more speedy receipt of the returns
to be of great value at all periods, but more especially when an
epidemic is prevailing.
By the directions of the Sanitary Committee I inspected
the River Lea on several occasions during the year and found the
water in a very bad state, especially in autumn. I had some
correspondence with the Conservators of the River Lea, and also
with the Local Government Board, who informed me that the
Tottenham Board had arranged to comply with the requirements
of the Lea Conservancy Act, 1868, which it is quite certain that
they had not done. The river is in a very bad state at present,
and I fear that years will elapse before the water is restored to its
original state, even if the provisions of the Act should be fully
carried out.
At the commencement of the scarlatinal epidemic I brought
the subject under the consideration of the Sanitary Committee,