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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    occupiers of the smallest of these places, which I foresee and confess to he demanded by the institu- tion of thorough disciplinary measures. The necessity for treating each Slaughter-house as a distinct structure 11 per se ” and the apparent con- sciousness of the inability of the holders of the smaller ones to adapt themselves to efficient regulations, is, I believe, the main cause of the opposition now made to the Bye-laws, for I have reason to know that the occupiers of the larger Slaughter-houses are ready to conform to the spirit of the Bye-laws, albeit they are not in accord with us as to some of the provisions therein. Under the peculiar and exceptional circumstances of the case before us, the question of dimensions so completely underlies the whole contention, that I earnestly hope your Committee will call the particular attention of the Local Government Board to the size of these small Slaughter-houses, as shown on the Plan made to scale by your Engineer, and forwarded to the Board some time ego [a copy of which, upon a reduced scale, is appended hereto] ; for I can scarcely imagine that the Board have