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skins, and tripes to be removed from the premises within twentyfour
hours after the slaughtering is completed.
10.—The occupier shall remove, or cause to be removed, from
the premises every carcase, bone, hide, skin, and all moat, fat, offal,
blood, garbage, and other articles, before the same have become
putrid or offensive.
Putrid or
offensive
articles.
11.—In case of any diseased cattle being brought to a slaughter
house the occupier shall forthwith give information thereof to the
Board, and to the Cattle Inspector for the district, with all particulars
in his knowledge as to when, from whom, and from what
place it was received.
Diseased
Cattle.
12.—The occupier shall allow every Member of the Board, in
addition to all other persons lawfully entitled to admission, to have
free access to the premises during the times of slaughter, and at all
reasonable hours.
Access.
13.—The occupier, if he neglect or omit to observe or perform, or
shall in any way break any one of the above Bye-laws, shall be
subject to a penalty of the sum of £3, and in case of a continuing
offence the sum of £1 for every day during which such offence is
continued after a conviction for the first offence.
Penalties.
14.—Every Court of Summary Jurisdiction as defined by the
Slaughterhouses, &e., (Metropolis) Act, 1874, having Jurisdiction
to hear and decide complaints of the breach of these bye-laws, may,
by Summary Order, suspend or deprive any occupier of a slaughter
house altogether of the right of carrying on any such business, as a
penalty for the breach of any one of these Bye-laws.
Suspension,
As to the structure of the premises on which the business of a
Slaughterer of Cattle- is carried on.
15.—Every person occupying a slaughterhouse shall cause it to
be provided with an adequate tank or other proper receptacle for
water and water supply, and so placed that the bottom thereof shall
not be less than 6 feet above the floor level; and the slaughterhouse
to be well and thoroughly ventilated.
Water
supply and
ventilation.
16.—Every person occupying a Slaughterhouse shall cause it to
be well paved with asphalte or flag stone set in cement, and to bo
laid with proper slope and channel towards a gulley, and to be
effectually drained by an adequate drain of glazed pipes or in other
sufficient manner communicating with the public sewer, and the
gulley to be trapped by an appropriate trap, and to be covered with
a grating, the bars of which shall not be more than three-eighths of
an inch apart.
Paving and
drainage,
17.—Every person occupying a slaughterhouse shall cause every
inner wall to be covered with hard, smooth, impervious material,
Walls.