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of any Licence for keeping Cows in the Parish. In
order to facilitate and promote the operation of
these Provisions, 1 recommended to the Sanitary
Committee on the 15th of August 1862, that a Notice
should be issued to all Occupiers of Cow Houses
in the Parish informing them of the sanitary
regulations which the Vestry would enforce with
respect to the keeping of Cows in the District, and
that such Notice should be framed in accordance
with the Regulations issued to Cow keepers on the
1st of August, 1857, which was accordingly done.
I was at the same time instructed to prepare a
Report on the condition of the Cowhouses as regards
drainage, ventilation, and other sanitary
conditions, which was presented on the 16th of
October. It was therein stated that thirty-two
persons had given notice of their intention to
apply for Licences to keep Cows in thirty-nine
separate localities,— that most of these places
were more or less objectionable on the ground of
proximity to inhabited dwellings, insufficiency of
space or structural defects, but that in eleven
cases only these evils existed in so aggravated a
degree as to demand the interference of the Vestry.
The nature of the objections in each case having
been enquired into and substantiated by the Committee,
it was resolved "that the Medical Officer do
forward to the Justices of the Peace a List of the
Premises objected to, stating in each case the
grounds of objection, and that he do attend the