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practice is becoming less and less. The occupiers
are requested to have at hand a garbage basket to
collect rubbish.
During the whole year, the markets of fruit and
fish stalls on the Saturday nights have been under
regular inspection, and a Scavenger's cart goes
round in the night to collect the refuse. Several
lots of fish and fruit have been condemned, salt
cod, 3 pads of mackerel, some shell-fish, 5 lots of
strawberries, a leg of mutton, and some bacon.
Slaughter-houses.
There are 24 slaughter-houses in this Parish
under inspection; most of them are kept in a
cleanlystate, but improperly near private dwellings.
The Metropolis Building Act Amendment Bill,
should it pass, would legalise and perpetuate
private slaughter-houses in London. It is a
singular want of judgment in the promoters of this
Bill, that just when Medical Officers and the public
were congratulating themselves that the period
would soon expire, when these nuisances could no
longer exist in the Metropolis, that a medical
Member of Parliament should be induced to protect
them. It would have been far easier and more
expedient to have promoted a Bill giving power to
the Metropolitan Board of Works itself or the
Local Boards, to erect, jointly or singly, public
Abattoirs, and have them, as well as the meat killed
in them, under the inspection of a competent officer.
The revenue derived by receipts from butchers
would amply indemnify the rate-payers.