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.

  • City of London (England)
Date:
1876
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Credit: 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. 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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    There are 27 Slaughter-houses in the City of London, viz. : 24 in Aldgate,* 1 in Bishopsgate, 1 in Farringdon, and 1 in Cripplegate Ward : of these the following observations apply exclusively to Aid- gate, no u objections ” to the Bye-laws having been expressed by the occupiers of the remaining three. The Bye-laws referred to were framed with a full knowledge of the intended, and indeed threatened, opposition on the part of the slaughterers and butchers of Aldgate, and every “objection” men- tioned in their letter to the Local Government Board was fully and dispassionately discussed by your Committee during many lengthy sittings, at each of which they invited, and were favoured by, the pre- sence of the Deputy of the Ward in which the Slaughter-houses are situated. This gentleman ably and forcibly supported the views propounded by the butchers, and evinced the keenest anxiety to protect their interests. * These Slaughter-houses are really in Portsoken Ward, but they are always quoted as of Aldgate Ward, and will be so described in this Report to avoid confusion.