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and although much of it is obtained from cows stallfed
in the parish, I have failed to detect diseased
products in the milk. I have often expressed my
conviction that the milk of cows fed in the midst
of a city is not so good as that brought from
the country; but I am bound to say, that the
cow-keepers of this parish have ever shewn a
readiness to attend to any suggestions by which
the enormous nuisance, produced by their presence
in an overcrowded population, may be mitigated.
I trust that now that the legislature has entrusted
the local authorities with the power of licensing
cow-houses, that some of the more oppressive of
these nuisances will be dealt with in our parish.
Some of our cow-houses, as those of Marshall
Street and New Street, and which I have so often
presented as nuisances to be dealt with by authority,
should bo at once, and for ever suppressed. Not
only have they been shown to be constantly
recurring sources of immediate disease, but the
injury they do to property in their immediate
neighbourhood is immense, and no more fruitful
source of increasing the poverty of the parish exists
than these nuisances.
BREAD.
I have paid considerable attention to the nature
of the bread sold in the parish. Whilst in some
instances I have found indications of the presence
of adulteration, I believe on the whole that the