BY HON. W. F. TAYLOR, M-D., M.L.C., D.P.H. 107 



sort should be allowed to stay for one moment the enforcement 

 of strict sanitary regulations respecting private slaughter-houses, 

 or their prompt abolition on failure to comply with such 

 regulations. 



It is admitted that in sanitary matters generally, Great 

 Britain is far ahead of any Continental nation, but in the matter 

 of public abattoirs the reverse holds good. Germany appears to 

 have led the van in this particular, and the number of public 

 slaughter-houses is constantly on the increase, and there is a 

 perfect army of meat inspectors, something like 35,000, I 

 believe. But Germany is a populous country, and due regard is 

 paid to the health of its inhabitants by the governing powers, 

 and no doubt this large army of inspectors give good value for 

 the money they cost, and many valuable lives are saved through 

 their watchfulness and skill. However, where public abattoirs 

 have been erected in Great Britain they have, to a greater 

 or less extent, superseded the private slaughter - house. 

 In Glasgow private slaughter-houses have been abolished, and 

 the butchers now express a strong preference for the public 

 slaughter-houses over the old system. And no doubt if we had 

 public slaughter-houses here conducted on the same system as 

 the one in Manchester where the butcher can enter and 

 use the public slaughter-house as his own private slaughter- 

 house, paying rent for it, our butchers would soon become 

 alive to the advantages of an abattoir, and willingly 

 give up their private slaughter-houses with all the trouble and 

 annoyance connected with them. Let us hope that the Minister 

 charged with the administration of the Slaughtering Act of 

 1898, will see his way to construct a public slaughter-house for 

 this community in the near future. 



In looking through the Journal of the " Sanitary Institute" 

 for 1898, I came across a plan and description of the Munich 

 slaughter-house which I cannot do better than read to you. The 

 communication was made by C. Childs, M.D., (Oxon), D.P.H., 

 and is as follows : — ■ 



The buildings of the Munich Slaughter-house and Cattle 

 Market, itc, &c. 



The plan I have had copied and enlarged. 



