Abattoirs; A Paper Read Before the Polytechnic Branch of the American Institute, June 8, 1866 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... of slaughter-houses, and these will explain away every false theory which has yet been brought against them. Perhaps the reports made by the various Health Inspectors, both public and private, have had as much influence on the public mind as any yet issued, and these I propose to respond to. The City Inspector, in his report of 1860, after noticing the bone-boilers, manure-heaps, &c., says: "In presenting the slaughter-houses as a nuisance, I would not place them under the same category as the preceding, while they are justly subject of complaints, as producing foul and unhealthy effluvia." Then, in a report of 1861, we find: "These establishments, so dangerous to health, continue to increase with the growth of the city;" and thus these mere assertions were put forth at every opportunity, without the evidence or any proof of their being "eo dangerous to public health." Even the late elaborate reports made of the sanitary districts by the Citizens' Association, have failed to produce any facts which go to prove the unhealthiness of slaughter-houses, although some of the Inspectors have attempted to do this; yet I am pleased to record that the majority of them have made fair statements of facts and satisfactory reports, which were called for by this excellent association. A few extracts from these reports will best satisfy the unbiased reader as to which seem to be the most reasonable. Says the Inspector of the Sixth District: "There are four slaughter-houses, kept in good order, and no complaint made by the neighbors." But the one from the Seventh District says: "There are six large slaughter establishments in the ward, all of which are necessarily very filthy, and of course injurious to the public health." In answer to this, the...

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