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from the markets beyond the limits of London, as well as
from the Islington market, to the public slaughter-houses
which should be provided. At the present time no administrative
authority has statutory power authorising it to provide
public slaughter-houses other than for the slaughter of foreign
cattle at the port of debarcation.
Also the general recommendations for Great Britain and
Ireland, which may be thus briefly summarized.
When any local authority has provided a public slaughterhouse
power should be conferred on it to prohibit slaughter
in any other place, except that a period of three years be
allowed to the owners of existing registered private slaughterhouses
to apply their premises to other purposes; also to
require all meat brought into the district to be inspected,
and reasonable charges made for this inspection. Also that
the joints of all carcases passed as sound shall be stamped;
and that it shall not be lawful to offer for sale the meat
of any animal which has not been killed in a duly licensed
slaughter-house.
No person is to be permitted to act as a meat inspector
until he has passed a qualifying examination; and that the
Local Government Board should issue instructions for the
guidance of meat inspectors as to the seizure of a carcase or
a part thereof.
II.—Milk.—That notification of every disease in the
udder of cows shall be made compulsory. That powers
should be given to Local Authorities for the purpose of
excluding from their Districts the milk of cows suffering from