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of the Registrar, in the present Bill, clause 18 and
19 deal effectually with this; in a former Bill it was
proposed that no still-born should be buried without
an order, and that particulars of every case should be
entered in a separate book. The certification of the
causes of death being now obligatory upon the medical
men, it would have been only fair that they should be
entitled legally to make a charge for such certificates
as for other medical services. Clause 28 provides for
returns of deaths required by sanitary authority (only
those acting under the Public Health Acts) and entitles
the registrar to a fee for deaths entered upon the form
furnished.
3.— The Slaughter-houses Act is intended to deal
and regulate Slaughter-houses, and certain other businesses
more or less associated therewith. Blood-boiler,
bone-boiling, tripe-boiling, manure-manufacturing, soapboiler,
tallow-melters, and knackers and fel-mongers.
It repeals the Sec. 55 and 56 of the Metropolis Building
Act of 1855, which would have prevented these trades
from becoming established in built-up parts of London.
The local authority will in future, for the Metropolis,
be the Metropolitan Board of Works, and in the City
of London, the Commissioners of Sewers. They will
make bye-laws, to be chiefly approved by the Local
Government Board. Notice is however to be given to
the Vestry of the Parish where the premises are situated,
and any objection to the granting of the licence will
then be heard, and taken into consideration. It
appears that the local boards or parishes have very
little power under this Act, and the opinions entertained
by Medical Officers of Health are in no way