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than otherwise are increasing, and the newly-built
mews appears to exceed many of the old ones in
want of space, and in the requirements for a
healthy dwelling. The wealthy inhabitants of
squares and mansions have a stronger interest than
they imagine in the welfare of those who live in
such proximity to themselves. The difficulties are
insurmountable in rearing a young family in the
close atmosphere of two rooms, over-heated under
hot slate roof in summer, ventilated imperfectly
in winter from the stable below, without yard or
wash-house,or many of the needful accommodations
for cooking and the storing of food, fuel or linen.
Is it to be wondered that these places are the
frequent seats of contagious maladies, that they
spread easily, or that they find ready victims to
their attacks ?
Cow-Sheds and Slaughter-Houses.
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The Sanitary Committee have a second time
unanimously expressed an opinion that all cowsheds
and slaughter-houses situate within 50-ft.
distance of inhabited dwellings should be abolished
in this Parish. This recommendation went before
the Magistrates, who again gave notice to the
butchers and cow-keepers applying for renewal
of licenses that, sooner or later, this regulation
would be carried into effect; considering however
that no public abattoir existed in this district for
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