REPORT OF THE SANITARY COMMITTEE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, TOGETHER WITH A REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ON THE OBJECTIONS RAISED BY THE BUTCHERS’ TRADE SOCIETY TO THE BYE-LAWS PROPOSED FOR THE REGULATION OF SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. LONDON: CHARLES SKIPPER & EAST, PRINTERS, ST. DUNSTAN’S HILL, E.C. 1876. _At a Meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, held at the Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 4th day of July, 1876,_ FREDERICK COX, ESQ., IN THE CHAIR. A Report from the Sanitary Committee (WILLIAM CAVE FOWLER, Esq., Deputy, Deputy-Chairman), dated this day, was read-- On the Reference of the 23rd of May last, to consider the Letter from the Local Government Board relative to the Slaughter-house Bye-laws agreed to on the 14th of March last, and submitted to the Local Government Board for confirmation, and on the objections of the Butchers’ Trade Society to the said Bye-laws. Submitting a Report from the Medical Officer of Health in reply to the said objections, and recommending the Commissioners’ concurrence therein. RESOLVED-- That this Court doth agree with the Committee in their said Report, and doth confirm and adopt the same. ORDERED-- That a Copy of the Medical Officer’s Report be sent to the Local Government Board in reply to their Communications therein referred to. ORDERED-- That the Report be printed, and circulated as usual. HENRY BLAKE, _Principal Clerk_. REPORT OF THE SANITARY COMMITTEE. We have, in accordance with your Reference to us of the 23rd May last, considered the letter from the Local Government Board, dated the 13th of May, relative to the new Bye-laws for the management of Slaughter-houses within the City of London, agreed to by your Honourable Court on the 14th of March last, and submitted to the Local Government Board for confirmation. Also we have carefully considered the letter of Messrs. Crouch and Spencer, with objections on behalf of the Butchers’ Trade Society, to the said Bye-laws, enclosed in the said letter from the Local Government Board for your observations. We requested the Medical Officer of Health to give a detailed Report in regard to the objections raised by the Butchers’ Trade Society to the said Bye-laws, and we beg now to submit the same to your Honourable Court. We have carefully considered the said Report, with the Bye-laws, and the said communications from the Local Government Board. We have also received and considered a further communication from the Local Government Board, with copy of a letter from Messrs. Crouch and Spencer, enclosing further objections on behalf of the Butchers’ Trade Society to the said Bye-laws, also a Report from a Dr. Whitmore, and letters from certain residents of Aldgate in support of such objections.