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30 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
In the interests of public health, the replacement of private Slaughter Hou ???
by public municipally-directed " abattoirs" is very desirable. In German town
notably in Berlin and Munich—meat inspection is carried out in an infinitely m ???
systematic and thorough manner than in London. All animals for slaughter
brought to a market and " abattoir," combined, with a railway running through
and situated in the least-densely populated part of the town. A compuls
inspection of the live animals and meat (including the " offal' or internal orga ???
before being exposed for sale, is made by a staff of highly skilled and scient ???
veterinary surgeons.
Condemned animals and meat are dealt with in a Special Slaughter-hou ???
and waggons which have conveyed infected cattle are carefully disinfected
cleansed.
On the site of the market there are places for the preparation of albun ???
from blood, the melting of tallow, and the selling of tripe. All meat, entering
city from the country, must be marked and sealed so as to show that the animal
killed in a public "abattoir " and duly inspected. In London large quantities of tu ???
culous and other diseased meat escaping detection is consumed daily, and largely
the form of sausage.
The Cowhouses.
The Cowhouses (for list see Appendix A) situated in populous back stre ???
have been inspected, and two of them structurally improved.
46 Cows, kept in 5 Cowhouses, supply the infants of poor a ???
prejudiced parishioners with "milk from the cow" as against 101 Cows in 9 C ???
houses in 1882.
A further reduction in favour of large dairy companies, whose supply of m ???
is based on most minute and rigorous regulations, would, in my opinion, tend to
a stop to many evils, including the spread of consumption, especially amongst infan ???
through the agency of milk.
The infectious disease called the " Grapes," which is only another name
consumption, is very frequent amongst closely confined, town-fed Cows.
I appeared on the 28th of October, 1892, on behalf of the Vestry, before t ???
Licensing Committee of the L.C.C., at the County Hall, in Spring Gardens, a
opposed a renewal of license to the owner in the case of one of the Cowhouses.
The grounds of opposition were on the score of an undrained and imperfect
covered dung pit situated in a milk shop and within a few feet only of the shel ???
upon which the milk was stored, and the counter from which it was sold. T ???
Committee accepted the objections, and the owner has since been granted the licen ???
having closed up the dung-pit and substituted in the yard movable covered galvaniz ???
iron receptacles.
Retail Bakehouses.
I have inspected and reported upon the 63 retail bakehouses within the Pari ???
(for list see Appendix A). I found them to be, generally, with a few exceptions, in
filthy and unwholesome state, dangerous alike to the health of the journeyman bake
who makes the bread, and to the Public, who eat it.
1 have caused, amongst other matters, the removal of three dark unventilate
w.c.'s (the soil pipes to which were placed within the closets) opening directly in
as many dark unventilatable cellar bakehouses; also, the furnishing of a supply
water direct from the main retaining the cisterns for temporary use only, in case
an occasional cutting off of the supply.
In five cases, too, the water-supply from cisterns used for drinking and brea ???
making and directly supplying the w.c. flush tanks has been remedied. Twenty-o ???
of the bakehouses are completely underground, and others only partially so. Th ???
former, owing to their situation and faulty construction are damp and unventilatabl ???
In times of heavy rainfall sewage forces its way through the drain traps
these cellars, soiling the sacks containing flour, and fouling the atmosphere. Th ???
dangerous state of affairs is due to the inadequacy of certain of the main sewers.
the presence of the discharges of communicable diseases, like typhoid fever or choler
within the sewer, one can easily understand how these affections may be propagate