City Sanitary Laws

The act of Parliament prohibiting the slaughter of cattle within the city, referred to in the passage from *Arnold's Chronicle*, extracted by your correspondent T.S.D. is the 4 Hen. VII. c. 3., which enacts that— "No butcher shall kill any flesh within his scalding-house, or within the walls of London, in pain to forfeit for every ox so killed 12*d.* and for every other beast 8*d.*, to be divided between the king and the prosecutor."—Bohun's *Privilegia Londini* 1723, p. 480. Brydall, in his *Camera Regis* (Lond. 1666, p. 114.), quotes the statute of 11 Hen. VII. c. 21, as the authority for th…