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should be rendered an offence. (5) To rigidly apply the 

 law relating to Adulterations. (6) Municipalities are asked 

 to certify the milk from dairies conducted on hygienic 

 principles. And finally, (7) The establishment of municipal 

 milk depots is demanded for the supply of milk for the 

 children of the poorer classes. 



To these recommendations none can object, they are in 

 accord with common-sense and experience, but their aspect 

 is almost entirely medical. 



It is quite possible one source of milk contamination will 

 in course of time be abolished, and that is the milker. The 

 milking of cows by machinery is an accomplished fact, and 

 will in the course of years take the place of the person who 

 at present is chiefly responsible for milk epidemics ; such a 

 system combined with the bottle method of delivery, will 

 insure a perfectly sound food being placed in the hands of 

 the consumer. 



KNACKEEIES. 



The chief use of a knackery is the disposal of dead 

 animals, or the destruction of those diseased or infirm. It 

 particularly applies to horses, but other animals, though in 

 far smaller numbers, find their way there. 



It was a mistake to include knackeries under the ex- 

 pression ' slaughter-house ' as defined by Section 4 of the 

 Public Health Act of 1875, as in this way two totally dis- 

 tinct institutions became mixed up ; into a slaughter-house 

 there enters nothing which is not alive and, at least in 

 theory, free from disease ; whereas into a knackery dead and 

 living animals are admitted, in all cases the subjects of 

 disease or incapacitated for further work. It would have 

 been far better to have included knackeries under offensive 

 trades, and have kept this repulsive and offensive calling 

 quite distinct from food production. 



Knackeries have received insufficient attention at the 

 hands of Sanitary Authorities, and the present state of 

 affairs has recently received at the hands of the veterinary 

 profession very exhaustive and advanced consideration. 



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