The San Francisco call., 1895-10-09
WHERE CATTLE ARE KILLED
Report of Health Inspector
Kinne on the Condition
of ButchertOWn.
Comments Made by the Inspector
on Number of Prominent
Slaughter-Ho

Health Inspector Kinne has finished
overhauling Butchertown and has handed
in his report to the Board of Health. The
matter will come UP for consideration at
the meeting of the board next Wednesday
and his recon mendations will be care
fully considered.
Some of the slaughter houses were
found in filthy condition and some of
them were quite clean for such surround
ings. The fertilizer manufactures and
the slaughter-houses where the hogs fed
in the cellars on offal were found in the
worst condition. Following are the
places specially mentioned:
William aaffe & Co., large sheep slaughter
house-Offal is sold and carted away; the
manure, refuse and blood go into the
bay or tide land, quantities of which remain
under the floor, as the tide does not come up
high enough TO carry it away.
Draper Selis, slaughter-house-Keep hogs
under the floor, 10 which is thrown the offal
to cool in room directly over the hogpens,
where the hogs feed upon the offal.
Alpers dead horse esIabhshment-The stencil
about this place is extremely sickening.
Fertilizer manufactory-Very filthy place.
Safes d Lapatic, sheep slaughter-house-
Keeps hogs under the floor, to which all the
offal is thrown.
Horn & Judge beef slaughter-house-Keep
hogs under the floor, to which offal is fed.
NJ Moffat-Feeds hogs in the same way.
James ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS filthy.
Schoenfeld-Basement smells filthy.
J. G. James e. Co.-Offal fed to hogs in the
basement.
Sylvester Establishment opens into adjoin-
ing premises and is rank with the foul odors
which come from the adjoining hogpens.
Simon Silverberg-Basement smells filthy.
Poly, Hebron & Co.-Offal fed 10 hogs in
basement.
James Hall-Offal fed to hogs, which range
underneath the whole slaughter-house floor.
The ammonia arising from these pens was so
strong as to make it difficult to breathe.
In addition to all the offal and refuse which
is being thrown into tidewater is the contents
of the Rairoad-avenue sewer, which is dis
charged at Sixth avenue and street. At low
tide the stencil which arises from the m nd
flats, which are then exposed TO the suns rays,
and which is of putrid and decaying
animal and vegetable matter, is beyond the
possibility of description.
In view of the existing conditions as set
forth in the foregoing report would beg leave
to make the following recommendations with
a view to improving, In some measure, at
First-That The law prohibiting the feeding
of butchers offal or swill to animals be strictly
enforced.
Second-That the keeping of hogs or other
animals beneath the floors of rooms where
meat is killed or being kept for market be pro-
hibited.
Third-That the depositing of offal, manure
or refuse in the tide lands inside the seawall
boundary and within the City limits be
stopped.
horse establishment and all other works of like
nature where the refuse and offal of the
slaughter-houses are collected and worked up
be removed to some more remote locality,
where the vile odors created will not affect the
health and comfort of this City.
1 would also recommend that steps be taken
to have the sewer now discharging at Sixth
avenue and street carried far enough toward
the seawall line so that The mouth of the sewer
would be under water at low tide.