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Metropolitan Board of Works, is not sufficiently regulated by
sanitary considerations. The Health Officers of the Metropolis
have opportunity, at the Annual Licensing Sessions, of bringing
this consideration under notice of Magistrates, and thus of
influencing the sanitary arrangements of slaughter-houses. The
Society is of opinion that bye-laws to some such effect as the
followingvare proper to be made by the "Local Authority," and
that, meanwhile, the principles of the bye-laws here drafted may
usefully and successfully be insisted on by Officers of Health, who
should invariably appear at the Licensing Sessions of Magistrates.
1.As to independent entrance:—
That every slaughter-house should have an entrance apart
from and independent of any shop or dwelling-house.
2. As to roof ventilation:—
That every slaughter-house shall be open to the roof, and
be ventilated by louvre ventilators in the roof in
addition to any other ventilation that may already
exist.
3. As to exact paving arrangements:—
That every slaughter-house should be paved with hard
asphalte properly sloped and channelled towards the
gulley. But if flag stones or hard small bricks are
employed, they should be laid on a bed of concrete
six inches in thickness and set in cement-no broken
stones or open joints being permitted to remain.
4. As to the position and security of drain inlets:-
That the drain inlet should be placed outside the slaughterhouse
where practicable, and should be guarded by a
locked grating, and provided with a stoneware syphon
or other approved trap, not being a bell trap. The
drain itself should be ventilated, and blood, garbage,
and manure should not be permitted to pass into it.
5. As to water and washing arrangements.—
That the water cistern should be made of slate or metal,
or of wood lined with metal. It should be properly
covered, provided with an overflow or warning pipe,
and no waste pipe should be permitted. The requisite
taps and hose should be provided, that the walls of
the slaughter-house, to the height of six feet at the
least, and the floor, may be flushed and cleansed.
6. As to separate and special lairage or poundage:-
That every slaughter-house should be provided with an
adequate place for the accommodation or poundage
of the cattle about to be slaughtered, with an entrance
way for the cattle otherwise than through the
slaughter-house. The poundage should be effectually
separated from the slaughter-house by a brick partition
with sliding or other door, and should be
well paved, lighted and ventilated, and should be