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"is granted as aforesaid, fourteen days' notice of
"the intention to apply for such licence shall be
"given to the Vestry or District Board of the
"parish or district in which any such place is
"situate, to the intent that such Vestry or District
"Board, if they think fit, may show cause against
"the granting of any such licence, and also seven
"days' notice previous to such Special Sessions
"being held of the intention to apply for such
"licence shall be given to the Clerk of the Justices
"for such division: Provided, that nothing in this
"Act contained shall extend to slaughter-houses
"erected or to be erected in the Metropolitan
"Cattle Market under the authority of the
"Metropolitan Market Act, 1851, or the Metropo"litan
Market Act, 1857."
From this provision you will see that cow-houses
are now licensed as slaughter-houses. From my
conviction of the danger to health and the deterioration
of the value of property in the neighbourhood
of cow-houses, I had no hesitation in recommending
the Vestry to use their influence with the magistrates
to prevent the licensing of these houses altogether.
The Sanitary Committee recommended the Vestry
that they should adopt this course. The magistrates
however, unwilling to interfere at once with so large
a property, granted licences to the cowkeepers of
the Parish, under the following regulations:—