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and to be sufficient in amount, cleansing, drainage to be kept
in proper order, the prevention of nuisances, the removal
within twenty-four hours of offal, hides, garbage, manure,
blood and refuse and the right of entry of inspectors.
They also deal with the structure of the premises.
Byelaws made in 1923 by the London County
Council, and enforced by Borough Councils, deal
with the prevention of cruelty during slaughtering.
Paragraph 4 of Circular 1349 states:—
"The Act (the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933) impliedly
supersedes byelaws covering the same ground, but existing
byelaws dealing with matters not covered by the Act are not
affccted, nor is the power (and duty) to make byelaws for the
licensing and registering of slaughter-houses and for securing
their sanitary condition. The model byelaws are being revised
in the light of the Act."
The Town Clerk prepared a useful report on
the Act which has been reproduced in the Council's
Minutes of 27th September, 1933, page 556.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924,
require that the Sanitary Authority must be given
notice of the day and time and place of the
intended slaughter of animals, except in cases of
emergency or when animals are slaughtered at
fixed times on fixed days and written notice has
been given.
The two slaughter-houses in the borough are
situated in the district of Inspector Hutchinson,
who inspects the premises, the act of slaughtering
the animals and the meat after slaughter of the
animals.