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299 [1911
Year. Oxen. Cows. Calves. Sheep Pigs. Total
Lambs.
1899* 2,436* 402* 436* 43,252* 903* 47,429*
1900 3,019 668 356 52,760 464 57,267
1901‡ .1,507‡ 440‡ 195‡ 23,324‡ 125‡ 25,595‡
1902 2,996 498 195 41,024 72 44,785
1903 2,445 173 141 38,090 46 40,895
1904 2,360 4 154 32,973 25 35,516
1905 2,195 17 127 30,686 48 33,073
1906 2,172 — 143 30,668 11 32,994
1907 2,146 4 142 24,380 2 26,374
1908 1,941 — 86 28,476 4 30,507
1909 ] ,763 6 100 36,481‡ — 38,350
1910 1,691 — 91 36,176 — 37,958
1911 1,448 — 73 38,009§ — 39,530
* These returns are for 9 months
‡ The returns are for 6 months.
§ Includes 8 goats.
‡ Includes 2 goats.
These figures are very instructive, for they show in detail the direction in
which slaughtering in private slaughterhouses has decreased. If a comparison
is made between the returns of 1900, the first year for which these are complete
for twelve months, and with those of last year, it appears that:—
The slaughter of oxen has decreased by 52.0 per cent.
„ cows „ 100.0 „
,, calves „ 79.5 „
„ sheep „ 28.0 „
pigs „ 100.0 „
„ All animals „ 31.0 „
The slaughter of cows, nearly all of which were old and emaciated, and
more or less tuberculous, was prevented in our slaughterhouses by the rigid
enforcement of the tuberculosis regulations, so that they are now killed elsewhere,
but where it is impossible to say, although it may be taken as a fact
that they are slaughtered somewhere, which is a misfortune to the public, who
will still have foisted on them food which is diseased, as is similarly the case
with the tuberculous milk, which is shut out from such large towns as
Manchester and Liverpool.