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myself, and on several other occasions by the Inspector, Mr.
Thomas. At the first meeting of the Justices at Prescott Street
the applications for licenses to eight cowsheds and two slaughter
houses were opposed, and the granting of the licenses was
adjourned to their meeting in November, to allow of certain
works being done, of which the occupiers had had notice. At the
last named meeting the opposition was withdrawn as regards six
of the eowkeepers, but was continued as regards two. In these
cases the licenses were refused because the proprietors would not
provide a water supply from the Company's main, although they
had none except from pumps. The opposition to two slaughter
houses was also successful, as regards one because the occupier
would not provide proper lighting and ventilation, and as regards
the other because the Metropolitan Board of Works objected to
declare it a newly established slaughter house, which it was, but
proposed to transfer the license from an old shed to the new
one; but as the old shed was in fair order the magistrates
continued that license at our suggestion.
During the year two attempts have been made to establish
anew two offensive businesses in the district, both being bladder
blowers, one in a shed at the back of the Kingsland Road, and
the other at Stonebridge Common. Summonses were taken out
against the parties and the magistrate convicted both in small
penalties with the understanding that if they were brought up
again they would be heavily fined. They both left the neighbourhood
immediately after the convictions without paying the
penalties, and without leaving any trace as to the places to which
they went. Other important proceedings were taken in the
Police Courts for the abatement of nuisances; in one ease for a
nuisance in Shoreditch causing injury to the health of some
inhabitants of this district, in which the magistrate ordered its
abatement, being the first order of the kind we have obtained;
and the other against the builder of a house for having erected
and let it without providing a proper water supply and water