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there. All condemned meat is rendered into fertilizer, as is re¬ 
quired in this country. The slaughtering is not done by the city, 
but by the livestock owners, who pay for the use of the abattoir 
sixty-four (64) cents for each steer, cow or horse; thirty-four 
(34) cents for each fat calf or hog, and ten (10) cents for each 
sheep, young calf or goat. A charge is made of about one-fifth 
(1/5) of a cent a pound for beef and pork not slaughtered there 
and about one-tenth (1/10) of a cent a pound for other meat. 
The meat is carried from the abattoir to the shops in specially ar¬ 
ranged wagons. About 151,000 animals are slaughtered an¬ 
nually. The capital invested in the grounds and building of this 
abattoir is $1,200,000. The operating expenses were about 
$50,000 and the total receipts about $89,000—a profit of $39,000. 
Berne, Switzerland, last summer decided to build a new mu¬ 
nicipal abattoir to cost several hundred thousand dollars, adver¬ 
tising for bids. This shows what faith the people of that city 
have in such an enterprise. 
Passing eastward, we find ourselves placed in an even more 
ridiculous predicament, when we learn of the municipal abattoir 
at Shanghai, China, with its concrete floors and brick walls, and 
which is kept scrupulously clean at all times. The cost of slaugh¬ 
tering here is: Ox, eighty-five (85) cents; sheep, ten (10) 
cents; calf, twenty-five (25) cents, and pig, twenty (20) cents, 
with an additional charge from five to twenty cents if killed out¬ 
side of regular hours. 
Jumping from China to South America, we find Uruguay 
proposes passing a law authorizing the issuing of bonds to build 
and operate a State abattoir. Working homeward, we next hear 
that the health officials of Toronto, Canada, are agitating the 
erection of a municipal abattoir, so that the slaughtering may be 
centralized. The Board of Health of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, 
has taken steps to have erected a public abattoir and to require all 
meats to be inspected. If time would permit, I might cite many 
more cities in other countries that have adopted this plan as the 
only feasible solution for handling this important question. 
I am delighted to be able to say here to-day that a few of 
