Report of the sanitary committee to the commissioners of sewers of the city of London, with reports of the medical officer of health and the engineer, on slaughter-house bye-laws; and an appendix, containing a copy of the bye-laws before proposed and of a communication from the local government board in reference thereto.

  • City of London (England)
Date:
1876
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Credit: Report of the sanitary committee to the commissioners of sewers of the city of London, with reports of the medical officer of health and the engineer, on slaughter-house bye-laws; and an appendix, containing a copy of the bye-laws before proposed and of a communication from the local government board in reference thereto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    By means of this plan it may be seen how far it may be practicable to reconstruct the whole of these places upon one agreed basis, and prevent, inter alia, the objectionable practice of driving the cattle across the public footways into the Slaughter-houses, so much complained of. It would be of great public advantage, and conduce materially to the proper observance of your Bye-laws for Slaughter-houses, if the licenses authorizing their existence were revised periodically, and I cannot doubt that Parliament would give such power if applied to. I regard the suppression of these private Slaughter- houses as simply a question of time, and feel con- vinced that they must give place to public Abattoirs when the prejudices of the trade can be overcome, and the material interests of the butchers and the welfare of the community cease to be in antagonism. Some such conclusion appears to have influenced the Select Committee of the House of Commons which reported upon the subject in July, 1873, for they state that, m their opinion, it would be desirable