Report of the sanitary committee to the commissioners of sewers of the city of London, with reports of the medical officer of health and the engineer, on slaughter-house bye-laws; and an appendix, containing a copy of the bye-laws before proposed and of a communication from the local government board in reference thereto.

City of London (England)

Date:: 1876

Credit: Report of the sanitary committee to the commissioners of sewers of the city of London, with reports of the medical officer of health and the engineer, on slaughter-house bye-laws; and an appendix, containing a copy of the bye-laws before proposed and of a communication from the local government board in reference thereto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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‘‘ The Board have given their attention to the “ questions submitted to them by the Commissioners, and though they have no authority to expound “ the Statute judicially, they will not decline to “ express their opinion upon the questions re- ‘‘ ferred to. ‘‘ The Board are of opinion that the Com- missioners should make Bye-laws appropriate to “ the Slaughter-houses which now exist in the City of London, as well as for those which may be “ established hereafter, and they think that the “ Bye-laws should be so framed as to have due “ regard to each class of cases. “It appears to the Board to be competent for “ the Commissioners to prescribe laws as to the “ construction which will be of much use and value “ in reference to the state and condition of existing “ houses, and at the same time to make others which “ will deal more exclusively with houses about to be “ established anew. “ The Board very much doubt whether it could “ be held in a Court of Law to be reasonable that “ the Commissioners should by any Bye-law require

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