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In the course of the year one complaint only was made of pigs
being kept so as to be a nuisance and injurious to health, notice was
given to the owner to have them removed, which was done.
Complaints were made that in a house in Boston-street, the body of
a boy who had died from fever had been kept over throe weeks, the
father and several other children occupying, and sleeping in one room,
this was caused through some misunderstanding between the father and
the Relieving Officer, but ultimately the body was buried from the
workhouse, after being dead four weeks.
I made the usual periodical inspection of the licensed slaughter
houses, 81 in number, and cow-houses 49 in number, and on every
occasion found them in a satisfactory condition, proper attention being
paid to cleanliness, drainage, ventilation, and water supply.
The effects of the cattle plague on the cowsheds of the Parish has
been a great dimunition in the number of the cows, in ordinary circumstances
the usual number always exceeded COO while at present there
are 17 sheds entirely empty, and in the remaining 32 there are only 135
cows, or about one fifth of the usual number.
During the year there were 1,614 applications to have dust removed,
which were all promptly attended to by the Contractor.
The cleansing of the roads and streets has been generally satisfactory;
during the winter several complaints were made of places being
neglected, to which the special attention of the contractor was directed,
and the evil remedied.
Since the passing of "The Cattle Disease Prevention Act,"
great difficulty has been experienced in getting dung removed, the county
magistrates of Kent and Essex understanding the Act empowered them
to prohibit entirely all manure from the metropolis being brought into
their jurisdictions, issued orders accordingly, and hence the difficulty,
but the Justice, construction of the Act has been decided by the Secretary
of State to be wrong, and the prohibitory orders considerably
relaxed.
I summoned one person before the Magistrate at the Police Court,
Worship Street, for refusing or neglecting to comply with a notice