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the butchers, and that of the dead meat market in
the city not then opened to the public, the Magistrates
were unwilling to enforce the powers they
possess of refusing licenses to those slaughter
houses which come under the above-mentioned
rule. Objection was made in more than one instance
to a slaughter house where the entrance was through
the house; to another where it was under-ground,
or otherwise inconvenient and a nuisance to neighbours.
The impropriety as well as the nuisances
arising from slaughtering animals in or near to
private dwellings, whether in cellars or underground
yards or small places immediately surrounded
by inhabited houses, ought to be generally
condemned.
There are in this Parish 130 stall-fed cows under
periodical inspection; although proper ventilation,
good drainage, frequent removal of dung, are well
attended to, nothing can warrant the continuance
of such practices in close proximity to inhabited
houses.
Metropolis Water Supply.
On the 8th of February last, the Sanitary
and Public Health Committee requested me to
direct the attention of the Directors of the Grand
Junction Water Company to the large amount of
organic impurity in the water (as shown by the
Monthly Analysis of Dr. Frankland) supplied by
them from the Thames. The Thames had