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by refusing all licences for slaughtering under ground;
and second, by refusing new licences for slaughtering
in private houses at all. In this way I hope we shall
gradually see the extinction of the objectionable
practice of slaughtering animals for sale in private
houses. Up to the time of the passing of the Amended
Metropolitan Management Act, slaughtering was
frequently carried on in unlicensed houses. The
attempts at preventing this failed, from the difficulty
of proving that the animals were killed on the
premises. It is now sufficient to prove that live
cattle were on the premises, to obtain a conviction
of the offender.
Public Urinals.
I have frequently brought before you complaints
made of the position and state of the public urinals
in the Parish. That these erections are of great public
utility there can be no doubt, and the necessity of
them is recognised in all the great cities of Europe.
In order, however, that they may not constitute
nuisances, they should be erected in public situations
and kept scrupulously clean, by a due supply of water.
Many of the urinals in this parish are erected in
positions which cause them to become nuisances to
the neighbourhoods in which they exist, and frequent
memorials have been presented to you for their
removal. Objections have been also raised to these
places when they have been erected in an unsightly