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reports on their condition as regards drainage, water supply,
ventilation and other particulars, were presented to a special
Vestry, held for the purpose of determining in what cases the
granting of the License should be opposed. It having appeared
that in eight cases the Slaughter Houses were in satisfactory
condition, and that in 26 others, works of improvement had
been executed by the occupiers, in compliance with the
instructions of the Sanitary Committee, it was resolved in the
remaining seven cases to show cause against the grant of the
License. In six of these cases the grounds of complaint
having been removed, or new Slaughter Houses provided, the
opposition was withdrawn. In the single case opposed, the
License was refused by the Court of Quarter Sessions.
In laying before you this Report, I am fully sensible
that in the discussion of many of the subjects to which
I have called your attention, I have not only left much
to be filled up or supplied at future opportunities, but
many questions of great importance have been entirely
omitted. Such for example, as the improvements desirable
in the ventilation of Churches and other Public Buildings, the
expedients to be adopted for the diminution of the nuisance
arising from untrapped gullies, the amended arrangements
required in certain cases, for the prompt removal of corpses,
and many other similar topics. These have been passed over
in the present Report, partly because it was impossible to
render it more comprehensive, without at the same time
extending it beyond due limits, and partly because I felt that
many of these questions involve difficulties with which the
experience of another year will I trust render me more
capable of grappling.
J. BURDON SANDERSON.
9, Gloucester Place;
February 3, 1857.