The New York herald., 1876-03-16
SLAUGHTER HOUSE INSPECTION.
THE NUISANCE TO BIZ ADATED AND THE ABB
ATToIR SYSTEM ENFORCED.

ATToIR SYSTEM ENFORCED.
Many months ago the Board OF Health resolved that
after July Is 1875, all slaughter houses In the city
should be abolished the business OF preparing ant
mails for food confined TO two ahattotrs-ono on the
west side and one the east side. The proposition
met with so much opposition from certain quarters
and from the butchers likely to be affected thereby
that the Board failed to carry their decision AS a
consequences, the abuses attending the killing OF ami
mails have continued; and although the establishments
inspected daily by the sanitary police, and weekly
by the District Health Inspector, Is found
impossible TO Keep thcm clean Yesterday morning,
by invitation OF the Board OF Health the representa-
tves OF the city journals met them eleven O'Clock
and made an extensive exam nation OF all the princl-
pal establishments tho east and west sides. The
secret OF the proposed inspection carefully
guarded that the owners could not ''clcan up" TO
receive the visitors; yet when President Chandler,
Commissioner Janeway sanitary superintendent Day
District Inspector Hamilton and the reporters appeared
in First avenue, Forty-third street. and began
the OF the slaughter houses many prepared
for the visit The entire district bounded by First
avenue tho Fast River and forty-ihrd and Forty ynnh
streets is occupied for saughterng purposes The es
tablishmcnt Mr. Donohue, between Forty and
Forty-third streets, where cattle and small stock ere
k'el was quite dirty. Ihs DISBURSEMENT & o' LAWS LAWS
per day decidedly hy. The yards attached 10 J.
L. Rodulan IS place bad sanitary condition, but
the interior was clean But little lauu could be found
with the house OF Lehman, Samucs Bro, Henry
Elsner, Rosenbeeker X Co., Riegleman X Co., D. an.
derbcce aud ReItscl Bros poruou of the establish
nent OF Stcinrech, Fleschauer, and schwartz, Child
schulzbacker were very nlthy In the rear Of Chs
ncrs and kngcman's establishments are many tene-
mcnt houses, the inmates of which IN hot weather
must sulcr very great annoyance from the smell and
the unsightly scenes attending the slaughter o the
and Forty. streets, east Of Frs, avenue IS
completely ned By wagons aud piles or
offensive matter; and all these impressed
Of the nuisance If the business be conducted eso
where with little offence, as the Health author-
claim be easily done by concentrating the bus
ness two or three abatoirs. On the side tho
establishments ouud in much better condition in
point OF cleanliness and not 30 objectionable owing
their isolation from tcncments The premises OF Tobcy
Booth, Charles White 4 Son and Spring Hyncs,
and the Western stock yards werc as clean as II pos
slbc TO keep them In thus district about 900 animals
are Killed daily single nfms sanghtcring as high as
500 heads The premises OF Peter Mcintyre, Mr..
sanitary care. McIntyrc's place Is in rear of tenement
houses, and II must be an cycsore 10 the
residents IN the hot summer months.
visit was made TO the Manhattan abatoir
where the most approved appliances were found for
tho killing of 1000 head OF cae per week, which
about The iota number Killed in The city. The
pahy has divided the entire abaltoir INTO forty baks
or compartments, 92xl5 feet, which they rent to
butchers Tor $1,000 per year. The cattle are landed
on the piers o the company, driven in through n
tunnel into the yards from which they are transferred
10 tho pens The balks, ready Tor the slaughter.
NO extra chargs Oeyoh" the $LVOo IL
made, and all the refuse is removed by
the company Tree OF charge purchased
IRON tho the prevalent market price. There
under the immense roo great tanks lor the rem
dcring OF fat and the manufacture OF blood uto pou
drctc for ierillizng purposes ani part o the ami
NAL Is lost All portions inclu,.ing the entralls and
even the hair ere prepared Tor the market without the
pcrpctraton of any Visible nuisance. 4 critical exam
nation OF the premises, which sand by President
Chandler to bc t9e most perfect IN tho world, demon
sratcd beyond doubt the superiority OF the abator
system, and that possible conduct the business
without oiicucc. II rs the intention of tho Board o
make another attempt To replace the present objection
able establishments by three abaitOir- and II possible
induce The slaughter house owners to bccom, Ito
stockholders themselves.