The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a second letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a second letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the duty of inspecting the City markets, a duty which would be greatly facilitated by instituting a system of licensed porters, over whom the inspec- tors might exercise control. The sanitary arrange- ment of the cattle market and adjoining slaughter- houses at Islington is so defective, as to demand most urgent inquiry. 2dly. Inspectors of nuisances in the metropolitan districts should be provided in number and cha- racter proportionate to the duties to be performed. Thus, for instance, it being preposterous to suppose that the 195,000 inhabitants of St. Pancras parish can be protected from filthy and abominable frauds by the one inspector now attached to the district, sufficient provision should be made. That officer is thoroughly zealous and worthy, but as matters now stand, many of the duties professedly depen- dant upon him cannot be fulfilled. Municipal authorities may reasonably anticipate that the re- quirements of the public health will daily become more apparent, and unless adequate provision be made, the question of centralization must neces- sarily force itself upon the government and the people : already indeed there are sufficient grounds for taking into consideration, as somewhat anoma- lous, the existing relations between the General Board of Health and the Officers of Health of the Metropolis. Such discussion will happily be avoided, if all pretext be removed by provision for public requirements on the existing basis.