New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-16
INSPECTING sLAUGHTER-HoUsEs.

VISITS BY nEALrH COMMIsSI0NEES-AbNhNIAG
or CONCENTRATING The sLAUGHlER.NG BJsI-
MSS.
Prof. C. F. Chandler President OF the Board
OF Health aud Commissioner T. q. Janeway, Inspected
seyerr Yesterday with ce,cnce TO the
ordinance passed time ego that there shall be 10
slaughering in this city below One-hundredand tenth
ST. excep in abattors after July H. 1876. Petitions have
been sent TO the Board Of Health urging some modlhca
ton of this ordinance The butchers had no warning OF
Tie nspccto and found carrying on thor business
g. they are accustomed to do daily Tho first Visit was
10 NJ Donolue & Co.'S place at Forty thrst and FIRST
ave Its condition generally satisfactory, but some
parts of the yards were filthy. At Davis Harringtons
on the opposite corner Of FortythiTdst. ana
First-aye., the Commissioners found fouf-stOIy
building used entirely for killing sheep and the clean
nr OF wool and sheepskins. very offensive od"r per
vaded the atmosphere in and about this building Isaac
RodmaD's place at No. 776 Frstavc was one OF the
rleaues OF the esab visited In the yards Of
Lehman Samuels & Brother at Firstaye. and Forty
fouthst the employees sssOoed the animals, and draw
ing them up By the ropes around their horns, attempted
TO kill them by striking them the head with large
banners The struggles Of the animals caused the butch
ers to miss their aim frequently and the blows falling
upon the bodies or limbs, injured ana manned the ami
mails without putting speedy end to their suerings
In this abshnent in that Of steiuscke Rosenbeck
and in Feischnans the work Of slaughering was eOn-
Quoted in about the manner. The Commissioners
also visited SchwartZchild's slauebterhOuhe IN fHht
ave, between Forty-Gfth and Forty-sixthsts. In all
these establishments the saughterDg IL carried ON In
old buildings The yards badly paved, and cannot
he kept as clean as they should DO TO avoid creating
nuisance. Esner's slaughtcrhouse in Frst-ave, be-
tween Fory-seven and Fortyeighhsts did not differ
materially from the others. Further up sheep yard
was found in block OF tenements ~ was 80 stuaI/d
that becomes a great nuisance In warm weather, but
wac not very offensive yesterday. The Commissioners
ala ter-h
found that the business in most of them was conducted
As well as could be expected in any small slaughter
house.
To enable them TO make a fair comparison. the Com
nissoners also visited the abat;oir at Ibirtyfourhs
President Chandler stated that they found there every
thing neat and clean, and every appliance necessary or
,auehtering with economy and dispatch. This a0attoir
contain, 40 pauls or compartments for slaugherng
each having suitable yard and all The blood ana nh
T. taken away ard disposed or without eXut n onisI
This abattOr has n capacity for slaugherng 4oOo cattle
a week equal TO the entire business done IN tins city
T.e cattle be transported by water without driving
them street
It's bee2ed by tae Board Of Health that the interests
o. the and the city VIII be best served by con
centration OF tue slaugGtcllng business; President
Chandler said that the Commissioner WOULD hQl recon-
mend The butchers 70 hire Daulks" IN the abattor or III
snv other place. but would insist that the business
sh0nd lie carried so that II shouid not oc
a nuisance detrimental TO tho health Of he city.
They suggest that on The side the butchers erect
capacious buding the waters edge, provided WIN
ali lilo modern improvements preserve cleanliness and
S,nt waste of tood ami the other matter carried
of by the sewers. This material can ne mace INTO
fertilizers worth $40 ton. The visit Of the Commits
soner. YESTERDAY had demonstrated clearly that mat
ter how much pains the butchers might take they coud
not prOhtably conduct small slaugbt'fhouse h Slcn
lnaIer that ii would not prove detrimental TO tleh ah
OF those living in the ucigbOrhocd On the west sac
the butchers could hire "baulks' In the aDattOr az thc
lot OF TLirty-fourh-s unite and build such build
ipg as suggested for the east side Tho commissioners
STATE that they convinced that the best interests OF
The city demand the removal of saughtchonses beyond
the more thcky inhabited qnarlers and they VII cal
for the enforcement OF the ordinance that limits their
manning below ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 July L. 1870