MUNICIPAL MEAT INSPECTION. 
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on the east side, for the slaughter of all animals and preparation 
of meats sold within the city, Federal-inspected meat excepted. 
In addition to the cities named, the officials of the following 
places have taken steps to supply municipal abattoir facilities, 
building and owning the plant or arranging with private owners 
for the use of the plant in every instance; hence the animals must 
be slaughtered under municipal inspection: Demopolis and Bir¬ 
mingham, Ala.; Knoxville and Nashville ($75,000), Tenn.; 
Louisville, Ky.; Charlestown ($10,000) and Columbia ($40,- 
000), S. C.; New Orleans, La.; Bridgeport, Conn., and Buffalo, 
N. Y. 
There may be other towns which have made similar provi¬ 
sions ; the above, however, comprises all places of which we have 
knowledge at this time. While we regret exceedingly that the 
name of a Pennsylvania town is not on the roll of honor, yet we 
need not be entirely ashamed or disheartened, for the reason that 
a number of our municipalities have established a system of meat 
inspection, some of which are exceptionally good. 
During the past year the Borough of Bristol has adopted an 
. ordinance which requires all meats sold within the borough to be 
inspected and stamped by either a Federal, State or local inspec¬ 
tor. This ordinance comes nearer than any other in the State, 
of which we have knowledge, to the municipal abattoir require¬ 
ments. (We have reason to feel that the time is not far distant 
when we shall see in this enterprising town a public abattoir, and 
one of which we will all be proud.) Recent unofficial advices in¬ 
dicate that Philadelphia, the metropolis of our great State, will 
before long be supplied with public abattoirs, at which all slaugh¬ 
tering will be done under inspection. 
Meat inspection in Pennsylvania, especially municipal inspec¬ 
tion, has been, as you all know, going on for some years, yet it is 
but in its infancy. We are just beginning to become awakened to 
its possibilities, and those who have given the subject attention 
realize that the next few years are bound to bring marked im¬ 
provement, especially with reference to facilities for carrying on 
municipal inspection. 
