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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION
ON TUBERCULOSIS.
MEAT.
A.—Slaughter-Houses,
1. We recommend that in all towns and municipal boroughs
in England and Wales, and in Ireland, powers be conferred on the
authorities similar to those conferred on Scottish corporations and
municipalities by the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, viz.:—
(a.) When the local authority in any town or urban district in
England and Wales and Ireland have provided a public
slaughter-house, power be conferred on them to declare
that no other place within the town or borough shall be used
for slaughtering, except that a period of three years be
allowed to the owners of existing registered private slaughterhouses
to apply their premises to other purposes. The
term of three years to date, in those places where adequate
public slaughter-houses already exist, from the public
announcement by the local authority that the use of such
public slaughter-houses is obligatory, or, in those places
where public slaughter-houses have not been erected, from
the public announcement by the local authority that tenders
for their erection have been accepted.