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slaughtering upon his own premises any of such animals without 

 inspection, contrary to the provisions of section 21, you will imme- 

 diately notify this office and your board of health of the fact, giving 

 details as fully as possible. Every licensed slaughter house is 

 obliged to state the class of animals which it intends to slaughter, 

 the days on which it is the intention to slaughter, either in its appli- 

 cation or by a subsequent written notice, of which you are directed 

 to keep yourself informed (see sections 18 and 19). The license 

 which is issued to each such slaughter house will state all the kinds 

 of animals which the licensee is authorized to slaughter, and you will 

 see that no animals are slaughtered on such premises except those 

 designated in the license. By section 20 it is made your duty to be 

 present on the days of slaughter, and inspect at the time of slaughter all 

 neat cattle, sheep or swine at such establishment. If there is more 

 than one inspector in your city or town, it is the duty of your board 

 of health to divide the duties between you as to the slaughter 

 houses. 



Your attention is especially called to the wording of this section, 

 which requires you to inspect at the time of slaughter. This means 

 that you must in all cases inspect the animal before any of the vitals 

 have been removed; and you toill not permit the owner or persons 

 slaughtering to remove any of the vitals and set them apart for your 

 subsequent inspection. Where practicable, arrangements may be 

 made between you and the proprietors as to the time of day when it 

 will be necessary for you to be present. 



You will also inspect at the time of slaughter, as defined by sec- 

 tion 21, neat cattle, sheep and swine slaughtered by persons not 

 regularly engaged in the business, whenever you receive reasonable 

 notice from them of their intention to slaughter. This section has 

 been slightly changed by the act of this year, which permits the 

 slaughter without such inspection of calves less than six months old. 

 This section also permits the slaughter without inspection of animals 

 which have received a certificate of health from an inspector within 

 six mouths. You will see that all animals slaughtered not coming 

 within these two exceptions are inspected by you. 



You will keep careful record of all these inspections, and make 

 proper return of the same to this office upon the prescribed form, 

 No. 6, '95, which will be furnished you. You will note the directions 

 at the bottom of this form, and see that the certificates are regularly 

 forwarded, and that they fully cover all this class of work conducted 

 by you. This commission will not deem that any inspector has 

 properly performed his duties who fails to carefully and conscien- 

 tiously attend to the slaughter-house inspection and rendering of 

 returns. 



