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"the noxious exhalations above the level of the
"adjacent houses.
"7. Every cow-yard in which a cow-house is
"situated shall be well paved with stone, or other
"impervious material (the joints of the paving to
"be run with grout), with such a slope towards
"the channels and trapped gulley, as to permit the
"rapid escape of all fluids into the sewer, and
"shall be washed at least once daily.
"8. The grains bins, and wash receptacles,
"shall be kept properly cleansed and under cover.
"9. The Medical Officer of Health and
"Sanitary Inspector shall be permitted to enter
"every cow-house at all seasonable times daily.
"10. That the Justices in Special Sessions
"be recommended not to renew any licence, where
"the foregoing rules are not strictly complied
"with."
Slaughter Houses.
These are nuisances of a less serious kind
than cow-houses. The refuse of dead animals is
more easily dealt with and removed than that of
living ones. The law requires that they should be
licensed, and they are subject to the same general
conditions as cow-houses. In this parish a system
of converting private dwelling-houses into slaughter
houses, wherever butchers' shops existed, had been
allowed to grow up. The magistrates have gradually
reduced the number of these slaughter houses—first,