THE GLOBE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1880.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1830, 3 January 1880, Page 2

THE GLOBE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1880.

The question of the establishment of public abbatoirs, to which attention has been directed more than once, has been revived by that portion of the community who are perhaps most interested. A full meeting of the butchering trade agreed to recommend to the County Council the establishment of such institutions. And not only so, but they impress upon that body tho necessity of steps being taken at once to provide what is most felt to be a public want. It must, we think, be evident to anyone considering this subject that the multiplication of slaughterhouses round about the suburbs cannot be longer allowed. The population is gradually increasing, and as this takes place the slaughterhouses must disappear from the suburbs. They will have to go still further away, thus increasing tho difficulty of inspection. That this inspection, to be any use at all, must ho thorough, complete and vigilant, is patent. To remove them, as they must bo, and scatter them over a wide area, many of them being perhaps remote from railway facilities, will double or treble tho work of the inspector. Tho establishment of public abattoirs would get rid of all this. It would centralise the slaughtering, and enable tho Inspector to keep a watchful eye on the work. And more than this : it ensures to the public the greatest possible amount of security that tho slaughtering will be conducted properly. A selection of a site could bo made which was practically close to the city, by means of railway communication, and yet so remote as not to be likely to be interfered with for many years to come. By Laving vans expressly constructed for the transit of meat, the carcasses can be brought into

town in perfect condition, and there would bo saved the inevitable damage which is now dona to the meat by miles of jolting in a cart over rough roads. By a judicious system of inspection the Council would be enabled far more satisfactorily and economically than at present to carry out the work of supervision. Then again they could to a certain extent recoup the cost of the erection of the necessary buildings. See., by charging a certain scale for the use of the abattoirs. Being easily accessible, as it would require to be, by rail from all parts of the district, the retailers could attend and purchase from the wholesale carcase butchers what they require, as is the case elsewhere. The multiplication in every district of slaughter houses would be thus avoided, and the public would bo served a great deal bettor than they are now. We trust the Council will carefully and seriously consider the proposal now made. The time has come when such a place as public abattoirs is a positive necessity , one the provision of which will not brook delay. It is, therefore, to bo hoped that the views of the deputation, which it is intended shall wait on the Council, will prevail, and that ore long wo shall see public abattoirs established in a suitable locality.