Slaughter-house Regulations.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2106, 26 May 1898, Page 3

Slaughter-house Regulations.

Hp In his report on the regulations neces- ■• sary for the proper conduct of slaughter M houses, the Thames Inspector re corn-' ■ mends the removal from slaughter ■ * houses of: (1) all pigs, and pigstyes, H . (2) rendering and boiling down works, ■ • . and (3) all storage sheds for hides, ■pi Kodfs, bones, etc.; and we observe the H; . Thames Meaji and Milk Inspection I : Committee'haSXgiven their Inspector B discretionary power to enforce such: B ‘ removal. The Inspector’s report shows, ■ as our contemporary the ‘ Thames B'. 'Advertiser,’Rays ‘ that we cannot go ■ on as we have been doing; that a. comR . plete reorganization is necessary ; that ■[ slaughtering and dairy work must be K carried on uuder proper conditions; R* and that unless these latter are enRj forced, the work of the "Inspector is ■ J thrown away. Mr ? Jephson is going ■ carefully to .work to ensure the obserK. vance of these conditions at the exK : : istent slaughter-houses, and unless he V can fully succeed in doing this, the R private establishments must be supk planted by public abattoirs. The R i private owners have their future largely l in their own hands ; they may obstruct . h the Inspector, .or they may make the 1 way easy for him.’- >Some time ago jjj we called attention to the condition of many of the Auckland dairies, and ;5 c pointed out the. numerous abuses that • were permitted to flourish there through the negligent system .of in-, spection in vogue. Since the lament* •p;'P able spread of cancer in New Zealand V is no w being traced'to the consumption ■ of meat affected with tuberculosis, and the spread of typhoid-to infected milk, Wbains should be-‘Spared in providI: : ■ irigior the of all " i sources of supply, and we are glad to see cur neighbours at the Thames are exhibiting such activity and intelli--V geneejin coping with the serious and ■ .glowing evil of laxity in the superintendence, of all sources of supply, part icularly nr the case of meat . ...