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(4) The Canal Company should be required to scavenge the bottom of the
whole of the canal (including the basins and lay-byes) annually,
removing the whole of the mud and other deposit by dredging or other
effective means.
(5) The Canal Company should be required to protect the canal and towing
path by proper and effective walls or close palings.
The General Purposes and Sanitary Committee of the Vestry resolved: That
the report be received, and the recommendations adopted with the addition
(6) That the Canal Company be required to macadamise the towing paths.
These recommendations were adopted by the Vestry, and the Canal Company
and other bodies interested have been supplied with copies thereof and of the
report. Other parishes having moved in the same direction, the County Council
have now directed one of their assistant medical officers to inspect the whole of the
canal in their behalf.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND COWHOUSES.
The London County Council are the licensing authority for slaughterhouses,
cow-houses and knackers' yards, and all licenses have to be renewed in
October of each year, notice being previously sent by each applicant to the sanitary
authority of the district of his intention to apply. All the slaughter-houses and
cow-houses in the parish were inspected by me, and their condition reported to the
Vestry, who thereupon gave notice to the Council of objections existing in regard
to 3 slaughter-houses and 13 cow-houses. There are no knackers' yards in
Shoreditch.
I attended on three occasions before the Public Health and Housing
Committee of the County Council in support of the Vestry's objections, and the
following table shows the alterations which have taken place:—
Slaughter-houses. Cow- houses.
Number existing in 189.1 23 21
Use discontinued 4 2
New applications refused 1 —
Applications held over for works to be
executed — 2
License granted conditionally 9 13
Total number of premises at end of 1892 19 19
In regard to one of the slaughter-houses, the use of it has been suspended
pending its re-construction, with the plans for which both the County Council and
Vestry are satisfied.