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occupied during the year, and the licence has not been
renewed, and at the present time there is therefore but one
slaughter house in the Parish.
It appeared to the Vestry that the time had arrived
for the removal of slaughter houses from the centres of
population, and they therefore objected to the continued
existence of a slaughter house in the rear of premises in
Walker's Court. The County Council, however, renewed
the licence.
There are no licensed cow-houses in the Parish.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE (NOTIFICATION)
ACT, 1889.
Having at various times during several years past expressed
themselves in favour of legislation requiring the occurrence
of cases of infectious disease to be notified to the local
Sanitary Authority, the Vestry were gratified at the passing
of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889.
The main features of this Act have been made widely
known in the Parish, a notice in the following terms having
been left at each house:—
The Local Authority of the above-named District direct attention to
the provisions of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, which
applies to this district and to every district of the Metropolis on and after
the 31st October, 1889. The following is a summary of the provisions:—
Notification of Infectious Disease.—Where an inmate of
any building, ship, vessel, boat, tent, van, shed, or similar
structure used for human habitation is suffering from an
infectious disease, namely, small-pox, cholera, diphtheria,
membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina
or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by any of the following
names : typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued, or
puerperal, or any infectious disease to which the Act has been