658 VETERINAEY HYGIENE 



LEGISLATION. 



Under Section 169, PubUc Health Act, 1875, with which is incor- 

 porated the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, urban authorities 

 are authorized to regulate slaughter-houses within their district, and 

 for this purpose to make byelaws for the hcensing, registering, and 

 inspection of the same ; for preventing cruelty, keeping such places 

 in a clean and proper state, removal of filth at least once in every 

 twenty-four hom-s, and a sufficient water-supply ; for neglect of any of 

 these, penalties can be imposed. 



The legislative diiference between Registered and Licensed Slaughter- 

 houses has aheady been defined. 



The advice given to local authorities by the Local Government 

 Board, as to the site and structure of private slaughter-houses, is as 

 follows : 



1. The premises to be erected or to be used and occupied as a 

 slaughter-house should not be within 100 feet of any dwelling-house ; 

 the site should be such as to admit of free ventilation by direct 

 communication with the external air, on two sides at least of the 

 slaughter-house. 



2. Lairs for cattle in connection with the slaughter-house should not 

 be within 100 feet of a dweUing-house. 



3. The slaughter-house should not in any part be below the surface 

 of the adjoining ground. 



4. The approach to the slaughter-house should not be on an incline 

 of more than one in four, and should not be through any dwelling- 

 house or shop. 



5. No room or loft should be constructed over the slaughter-house. 



6. The slaughter-house should be provided with an adequate tank or 

 other proper receptacle for water, so placed that the bottom shall not 

 be less than six feet above the level of the floor of the slaughter- 

 house. 



7. The slaughter-house should be provided with means of thorough 

 ventilation. 



8. The slaughter-house should be well paved with asphalte or 

 concrete, and laid with proper slope and channel towards a guUy, 

 which should be properly trapped and covered with a grating, the bars 

 of which should be not more than three-eighths of an inch apart. 



Provision for the effectual di-ainage of the slaughter-house should 

 also be made. 



9. The surface of the walls in the interior of the slaughter-house 

 should be covered with hard, smooth, impervious material to a 

 sufficient height. 



10. No watercloset, privy, or cesspool should be constructed within 

 the slaughter-house. 



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