REPORTOF THESANITARY COMMITTEE.
We have, in accordance with your Reference to us of the 23rd May last, considered the letter from the Local Government Board, dated the 13th of May, relative to the new Bye-laws for the management of Slaughter-houses within the City of London, agreed to by your Honourable Court on the 14th of March last, and submitted to the Local Government Board for confirmation. Also we have carefully considered the letter ofMessrs.Crouch and Spencer, with objections on behalf of the Butchers’ Trade Society, to the said Bye-laws, enclosed in the said letter from the Local Government Board for your observations.
We requested the Medical Officer of Health to give a detailed Report in regard to the objections raised by the Butchers’ Trade Society to the said Bye-laws, and we beg now to submit the same to your Honourable Court.
We have carefully considered the said Report, with the Bye-laws, and the said communications from the Local Government Board.
We have also received and considered a further communication from the Local Government Board, with copy of a letter fromMessrs.Crouch and Spencer, enclosing further objections on behalf of the Butchers’ Trade Society to the said Bye-laws, also a Report from aDr.Whitmore, and letters from certain residents of Aldgate in support of such objections.
We beg to recommend that your Honourable Court concur in the Report of the Medical Officer of Health, and that a copy thereof be forwarded to the Local Government Board in reply to their communication of the 13th ulto.
The effect of this will be, to adhere to the several proposed Bye-laws, except that as regards Bye-lawNo.10, which is as follows:—
“That the internal surface of the roofs and upper portions of the walls of the Slaughter-houses and Pounds, above the 7ft.6in.of impermeable surface, be washed with quicklime at least once every month.”
“That the internal surface of the roofs and upper portions of the walls of the Slaughter-houses and Pounds, above the 7ft.6in.of impermeable surface, be washed with quicklime at least once every month.”
It is suggested that it may be so far relaxed, that the monthly limewhiting be required in the summer only, say from May to October, and that in the winter months, say from November to April, the limewhiting be required to be done once in three months.
And as regards Bye-lawNo.18, which is as follows:—
“That in case of any diseased or unsound cattle being brought to a Slaughter-house, Pound, or Lair, the occupier shall forthwith give information thereof to the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London.”
“That in case of any diseased or unsound cattle being brought to a Slaughter-house, Pound, or Lair, the occupier shall forthwith give information thereof to the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London.”
It is proposed not to insist upon the retention of the word “unsound,” provided that the animals be slaughtered within a specified time of the occurrence of any accident that may disable them.
All which we submit to the judgment of your Honourable Court.
Dated this 4th day of July, 1876.
(Signed)FREDᴷ.COX.W. C. FOWLER.H. H. HEATH.W. I. LOWE.