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Mar, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. vil: 
Privies. 
dash EveY water-closet, privy, cesspool, and urinal used in connection with a 
uty arouse shall be situated at a distance of not less than one hundred yards from 
re Ing, enclosure, or place in or at which stock are slaughtered or meat is dressed, 
Pared, treated, or stored. 
Pigsties. 
" sha Every pigsty, enclosure, and place where swine are kept at a slaughter-house 
bail ding Situated at a distance of not less than two hundred and fifty yards from an 
te 8, enclosure, or place in or at which stock are slaughtered or meat is dressed, 
Pared, treated, or stored. 
Offal to swine. 
j ae Swine shall not be fed with offal at a slaughter-house, nor shall any offal be 
| thor ed therefrom for the purpose of feeding swine, unless such offal has first been 
|) ughly cooked. 
| 9 Notice of slaughtering. 
his; 3. The owner of every slaughter-house shall give to the inspector such notice of 
Mtention to slaughter stock as will enable the inspector to inspect such stock. 
Tampering with meat. 
] 20¢ a Until stock slaughtered have been inspected by the inspector the pleura are 
tray 2° Stripped or otherwise interfered with, and no part of the carcass is to be cut 
of Sone tPulated, or interfered with in any manner which may prevent the discovery 
4se or may alter the true condition of the meat. 
| Mth Ti Inspector may condemn any stock or meat which in his opinion has been dealt 
Contravention of the provisions of this Regulation. 
yi 95 Branding meat. ; 
| thal: When the inspector has inspected any meat and approved of the same, h 
} tak ae each separate quarter of beef and each carcass or quarter of mutton with a 
i\ amp. 
J} Yo be} Y Person who wilfully removes or obliterates any such mark or ramp or who, 
2 || p Dg an inspector, aflixes or causes to be atlixed to any meat any such mark or 
ih 18 guilty of an offence against these Regulations. 
24 Calves. 
' Calves less than four weeks old are not to be slaughtered for meat. 
Condemned meat. 
tan jj Condemned meat at a slaughter-house shall be rendered unfit for the food of 
Ar € mode directed by the inspector. 
; i 98 Removal of hides, &e. 
a house nol and the hides, skins, heads, and feet of stock slaughtered at a slaughter- 
by the ba only be removed from the premises in the manner and at the times directed 
; r pector. 
by thee Contents of paunches and of intestines shall be deposited in the place appointed 
Uspector for the purpose. 
Carriage of meat. 
Veiads Meat shall be carried from the slaughter-house to the butcher’s shop in 
Rye pProved by the inspector. 
Senet Le such vehicle shall be provided with a proper roof, and shall be so con- 
8s to permit of a free current of air. 
 therane @t Shall be carried in such vehicle either suspended from the roof or sides 
dort r so arranged that a free current of air may circulate between the carcasses 
®ns of carcasses being carried. 
Blowing meat, ge. 
nay N 0 person shall blow with his breath or otherwise into any meat, or eject any 
pad matter, or other substance from his mouth thereon. 
othe Porson shall treat, dress, or prepare any meat by means of any preservative 
Sch, | Substance which, in the opinion of the inspector, injures, or is likely to injure, 
at or to render it unfit for the food of man. 
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