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Privies. 
4 20. Every water-closet, privy, cesspool, and urinal used in connection with a 
au hter-house shall be situated at a distance of not less than one hundred yards from 
any uilding, enclosure, or place in or at which stock are slaughtered or meat is dressed, 
Prepared, treated, or nse 
Pigsties. 
sh 21, Every pigsty, enclosure, and place where swine are kept at a slaughter-house 
all ‘be situated at a distance of not less than two hundred and fifty yards from any 
uiding, enclosure, or place in or at which stock are slaughtered or meat is dressed, 
Mepared, treated, or stored. 
Offal to swine. 
22. Swine shall not be fed with offal at a slaughter-house, nor shall any offal be 
theoved therefrom for the purpose of feeding swine, unless such offal has first been 
roughly cooked. 
Notice of slaughtering. 
hi .*3. The owner of every slaughter-house shall give to the inspector such notice of 
“intention to slaughter stock as will enable the inspector to inspect such stock. 
Tampering with meat. , 
hot 24. Until stock slaughtered have been inspected by the inspector the pleura are 
- to be stripped or otherwise interfered with, and no part of the carcass is to be cut 
of iu »Manipulated, or interfered with in any manner which may prevent the discovery 
nease or may alter the true condition of the meat. 
with 3 le inspector may condemn any stock or meat which in his opinion has been dealt 
“in contravention of the provisions of this Regulation. 
Branding meat. 
25. When the inspector has inspected any meat and approved of the same, he 
rand each separate quarter of beef and each carcass or quarter of mutton with a 
ark or stamp. 
hot fany person who wilfully removes or obliterates any such mark or stamp, or who, 
ing an inspector, affixes or causes to be affixed to any meat any such mark or 
‘lamp, is guilty of an offence against these Regulations. 
Calves. 
26. Calves less than four weeks old are not to be slaughtered for meat. 
Condemned meat. 
27. Condemned meat at a slaughter-house shall be rendered unfit for the food of 
Man in the mode directed by the inspector. 
Removal of hides, fe. 
28. Offal and the hides, skins, heads, and feet of stock slaughtered at a slaughter- | 
pulse Shall only be removed from the premises in the manner and at the times directed 
7 Inspector. ; 
brit. © contents of paunches and of intestines shall be deposited in the place appointed 
Y the inspector for the purpose. 
Carriage of meat. 
“tae Meat shall be carried from the slaughter-house to the butcher's shop in 
leles approved by the inspector. i 
Strycivety Such vehicle shall be provided with a proper roof, and shall be so con- 
Neted as to permit of a free current of air. 
thor, cat shali be carried in such vehicle either suspended from the roof or sides 
: Teof, or so arranged that a free current of air may circulate between the carcasses 
Portions of carcasses being carried. 
Blowing meat, &e. 
salt 30. No person shall blow with his breath or otherwise into any meat, or eject any 
» liquid matter, or other substance from his mouth thereon. 
0 person shall treat, dress, or prepare any meat by means of an preservative 
er substance which, in the opinion of the inspector, injures, or is likely to injure, 
Meat or to render it unfit for the food of man. 
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