Prepared, treated, or stored. 
1 May, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. VII. 
Privies. 
20. Every water-closet, privy, cesspool, and urinal used in connection with a 
Slaughter-house shall be situated at a distance of not less than one hundred yards from 
any building, enclosure, or place in or at which stock are slaughtered or meat is dressed, 
Pigsties. 
21. Every pigsty, enclosure, and place where swine are kept at a slaughter-house 
shall be situated at a distance of not less than two hundred and fifty yards from any 
nilding, enclosure, or place in or at which stock are slaughtered or meat is dressed, 
Prepared, treated, or stored. 
Offal to swine. 
22. Swine shall not be fed with offal at a slaughter-house, nor shall any offal be 
Temoved therefrom for the purpose of feeding swine, unless such offal has first been 
thoroughly cooked. peor 2 
Notice of slaughtering. 
23. The owner of every slaughter-house shall give to the inspector such notice of 
_ his intention to slaughter stock as will enable the inspector to inspect such stock. 
Tampering with meat. 
24. Until stock slaughtered have been inspected by the inspector the pleurew are 
hot to be stripped or otherwise interfered with, and no part of the carcass is to be cut 
away, manipulated, or interfered with in any manner which may prevent the discovery 
Of disease or may alter the true condition of the meat. 
__ The inspector may condemn any stock or meat which in his opinion has been dealt 
With in contravention of the provisions of this Regulation. 
Branding meat. 
25. When the inspector has inspected any meat and approved of the same, he 
’ shall brand each separate quarter of beef and each carcass or quarter of mutton with a 
Mark or stamp. 
Any person who wilfully removes or obliterates any such mark or stamp, or who, 
uot being an inspector, affixes or causes to be atlixed to any meat any such mark or 
Stamp, 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, &e. 
28, Offal and the hides, skins, heads, and feet of stock slaughtered at a slaughter- 
house shall only be removed from the premises in the manner and at the times directed 
y the inspector. r 
'The contents of paunches and of intestines shall be deposited in the place appointed 
y the inspector for the purpose. 
Carriage of meat. 
29, Meat shall be carried from the slaughter-house to the butcher’s shop in 
Vehicles approved by the inspector. 
Every such vehicle shall be provided with a proper roof, and shall be so con- 
Structed as to permit of a free current of air. 
Meat shali be carried in such vehicle cither suspended from the roof or sides 
ercof, or so arranged that a free current of air may circulate between the carcasses 
or portions of carcasses being carried. 
Blowing meat, §c. 
30. No person shall blow with his breath or otherwise into any meat, or eject any 
Salt, liquid matter, or other substance from his mouth thereon. 
No person shall treat, dress, or prepare any meat by means of any preservative 
or other substance which, in the opinion of the inspector, injures, or is likely to injure, 
Such meat or to render it unfit for the food of man. 
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