Our slaughter-house system : a plea for reform / [C. Cash].

  • Cash, C.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Our slaughter-house system : a plea for reform / [C. Cash]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In larger abattoirs for towns of more than 10,000 inhabitants, the slaughtering-halls for large and small cattle are generally combined in one; but in towns of more than 30,000 inhabitants the extent of slaughtering operations demands a separate hall for large and small animals. According as the block system or system of separate buildings is adopted, these halls will be under one roof, or independent of each other. We may here allude to the fact that the old French VIEW OF SMALL ABATTOIR, ROTHENBURG. Slaughtering-hall for large and small animals. system of separate slaughter-houses for each butcher has been long discarded. It is only in Holland, Switzer- land, and Italy that old-fashioned abattoirs built on this plan are found.* The old slaughter-house for large cattle at Buda Pesth is arranged in this way, but will shortly be replaced by a new building on thoroughly modern lines. The great * ^0 note with regret that the new abattoir in course of erection at Islington is of this old-fashioned type which Herr Ileiss condemns. 10—2