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offal is a source of nuisance, and a contamination of
the atmosphere around. The Sanitary Committee,
after mature consideration, resolved to recommend
to the Magistrates the propriety of refusing licences
to all cow-houses and slaughter-houses situated
within 50 feet of inhabited dwelling-houses. The
Magistrates fully concurred with the decision of
the Sanitary Committee, and gave notice that at
the next licensing day the licence would be refused
for cow-sheds and slaughter-houses within the
above-mentioned distance from inhabited houses.
Pig-slaughtering without a licence was for a
short time carried on in Kensal New Town, and
one case of cow-keeping without licence was
detected : in both cases orders for discontinuance
were carried out. The licence was temporarily
refused for one slaughter-house at my recommendation,
on account of rooms above it being occupied
by a family, in which deaths and disease were
recorded, and probably caused by it. The place
was described in the Medical Registrar's certificate
as " a perfect pest house."
The Small Pox and Fever Ambulance.
The invalid carriage is kept in readiness to
convey persons suffering from dangerous contagious
maladies to the Fever and other Hospitals. It has
been used for 38 patients in the year, and the cost
of their removal has averaged 10s. each.