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in cold stores for long periods with a view of its
selling at a better price frequently renders it
mouldy, and sometimes almost valueless. If
frozen Colonial meat is to compete successfully
with any except very inferior Continental
produce, it should be in the hands of the consumers
as quickly as possible after being landed.
Steps are in contemplation with a view
to the demolition of the Slaughterhouses in
Aldgate with their inevitable abominations of
Pounds, Lairs, and Dung-pits; a procedure
which will also abolish the dangerous nuisance
caused by cattle passing through crowded City
thoroughfares, and over the pavements leading
to the shops.
The prominent success of the Foreign Cattle
Market at Deptford as a slaughtering place for
the Jews, takes away the last valid reason why
the Aldgate abattoirs should be continued.
I am sanguine enough to predict that, if
spared, I shall be able in my next Annual Report