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COWSHEDS, DAIRIES, AND SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
There are now no cowsheds in the Parish, and only two
slaughter houses. The licences of the Utter were renewed in
October, the premises having been kept in a satisfactoty
condition.
DISINFECTION OF CABS.
In the event of a public conveyance being used for conveying
any person suffering from any dangerous infections
disorder, the owner or driver thereof is liable under the
Sanitary Act, 1866, to a penalty of £5, unless he immediately
provides for the disinfection of his vehicle. Since the general
adoption of a system of ambulance-service by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, and other Authoring, he use of an ordinary
public conveyance for removing an infectious patient to
hospital has become exceedingly rare. The attention of the
Commissioner of Police, however, had been directed to the
enactment referred to, and he enquired whether the Vestry
would undertake the disinfection of cabs under such circumstances,
and if so, for what charge, and whether a certificate
of disinfection would he given.
The Vestry replied that in their judgment the only means
of ensuring the public from risk of infection in such a case is
for the conveyance to be disinfected before permitted to
leave the hospital premises which is in fact the practice prevailing
at the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
where the large majority of infections case are received.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
On the 2nd December, the Vestry passed a resolution
expressing their concurrence in the opinion of the Chelsea