9G PUBLIC ABATTOIRS AM) THE PREVENTION, ETC. 



slaughtering to give up their private slaughter-houses, but it is 

 proposed to give proper facilities to those who are unable to 

 meet the necessary requirements of the Act as to water supply, 

 drainage, and other sanitary measures, to carry on their business 

 under suitable conditions ; so that should the owner of a private 

 slaughter-house be unable to comply with the provisions of the 

 Act from the want of a sufficient supply of pure water, 

 inadequate drainage, or other causes, he may slaughter his 

 stock at the public abattoir for a moderate cost. The Act also 

 makes provision for the efficient inspection of slaughter-houses 

 by a duly qualified inspector who " may at all reasonable times, 

 enter, inspect, and examine any slaughter-house or butchers' 

 shop, and may inspect and examine all stock and all utensils, 

 machinery, apparatus, works, and things at a slaughter-house or 

 butchers' shop, or used in connection with stock or meat, and all 

 places, things and vehicles kept or used for storage, sale, carriage 

 or delivery of meat or stock." Section 9 gives the inspector 

 power to take action when he finds a slaughter-house or butchers' 

 shop in an unclean state, and when any stock at a slaughter- 

 house or elsewhere are diseased, and when any person employed 

 in or about the premises is found to be suffering from disease likely 

 to contaminate the meat. He may also order a sufficient supply 

 of pure and wholesome water in the case of an inadequate 

 supply, or when the water is not pure, and he may order any 

 vehicle or utensil used for the purpose of carrying meat to be 

 cleansed, disinfected, and otherwise rendered wholesome. 



The inspector may order the removal or isolation of any 

 person found to be affected with disease after he has satisfied 

 himself by " reference to the Health Office of the district in 

 which the slaughter-house or butchers' shop is situated, or to 

 some duly qualified medical practitioner, that the disease with 

 which any person is affected is one or other of the diseases 

 mentioned in the second schedule." The inspector therefore 

 cannot, of his own authority, order the removal or isolation of 

 any person whom he supposes to be suffering from disease, but 

 only on the authority of a medical practitioner. 



It is competent for any person who may feel aggrieved by 

 an order or decision of an inspector, other than an order to 

 cleanse, to appeal therefrom to any two justices sitting in Petty 

 Sessions on giving to such inspector the prescribed notice in 

 writing of his intention so to do. 



