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Street; Nos. 06, CO, 62, and 64,PereiraStreet.—Summons issued,
and withdrawn, as the premises were olosed before the hearing.
No. 98, Sclater Street; No. 17, North Plaoe; No. 20, Sale
Street; No. 16, TJsk Street; No. 19, Key Street; No. 12, Park
Street; No. 2, Church Row; "The Jolly Brewers," Fellbrigg
Street; No. 78, Pereira Street; Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Hare Court;
Nos. 212, and 214, Columbia Road; No. 8, Old Nichol Street;
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, Mount Square; Nos. 14, and 15,
Old Nichol Street (these houses have cellar entramoes to the
yards); Nos. 21, 22, and 23, Smith's Buildings.—Notices were
served, requiring certain improvements to be carried out on these
premises; the owners, however, declined to obey, and preferred to
close the houses, in which condition they still remain.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES AND COW SHEDS.
The Seventeen Slaughter Houses in the Parish are in good order,
and the regulations of the Metropolitan Board of Works have
been complied with. There has been no application for a new
licence, and it was not necessary to oppose the renewal of any of
the old ones.
The forty-two Cow Sheds have also been frequently inspected,
and no opposition was offered to any of the renewals.
A new licence was applied for, to keep cows in some premises in
the rear of No. 15, Cambridge Circus, by Mr. William Sykes.
The requirements of the Metropolitan Board of Works had been
carried out, and the matter was referred by that Board to
the Vestry, for an opinion on the position and sanitary surroundings
of the proposed cow-shed. I reported to the Sanitary
Committee, that I did not consider the premises at all suitable for
the purpose; as they were entirely surrounded by houses, and the
yard-space was utterly insufficient. The dung pit, and grain pit,
were within the four walls of the shed, and merely divided off by
a partition; and the two side walls were the party walls of the
adjoining houses. The Sanitary Committee visited the premises,