Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-04
DUTIES OF PUBLIC FLAYER
system in Force in Vienna for Disposing Of
Dead Animals.
The City Owns Plant, Which Yields
Reyenue-Sanitarya and Economic
Principles Combined.

Through the Department of State the
District Commissioners have received
COPY of a dispatch from the vice consul Oh
the >Unted States at Vienna. Austria. rela-
tive to the disposition of the carcasses CT
dead animals in that city. The report OF
the vice consul shows, first. the manner OF
appointing public fiayer, and. second the
instructions given that official.
1t is stated that dead animals 1ounu
within the city limits, after cause OF death
is ascertained, are steamed in so-called
digestors in the thermo- chemical establish
ment, under a pressure of steam OF about
four atmospheres. The steamed matter is
thereby sterilized at the same time Al
ter completed steaming the resulting lat
and lime water are removed from the dl-
gestor What remain in the apparatus Is
dried and worked INTO meat and bone meal.
The products belong to the lessee OF the
thermo-chemical plant, who is at the same
time the public 1iayer.
Everything confiscated by the veterinary
police and the meat inspectors is treated
in a like manner, aSNare the carcaSses
found in the street. The plant of the pub
lie tiayer and the acknowledgment plant
are combined in one and situated at KAISER
Ebersdorf within the city limits, tut $50
lated. and well out in the country. Toe
plant is the property of the city, and Is
leased in good running order IL was
leased January l. ls9I, Tor hVe years, ln ne
operating it for the marketable product ne
obtains resulting from the thermo-cheml-
cal plant AS city public hayer he Is bound
by strict conditions to fulfill the duties OF
that office.
Reduction Plant.
Reference is made in the report to a new
plant for the public faytng OF carcasses Oh
animals combined with Podewlls appara-
tus Ciayer's disinfector), for safely reduc-
ing the same, at Brunn. Austria 1t was
constructed by that city in 1898, and is said
to be the most complete plant IN austria
for the purpose, considered both on SAM
tary and economical principles. II was
erected to be in connection with the abat-
toir now building, and both WILL IL Is stat
ed be under the same management anu IN
Spection.
The reasons for joining the plant and the
abattoir were both sanitary and ecoacmi-
cal because a strict veterinary control is
exercised only over the Workings OF the
ahattoir and besides, most of the material
to be destroyed in the dlsinfectng appara-
tus comes from there. Further, ANIMALS
brought by rail to market, II round 70 pc
infested with disease, can be delivered d.
the disecting room and laboratory nor CT
having first to be unloaded, and any such
stock driven to market and found infected
need not pass by the stockyaras. Bosn build
ings are so constructed that the plant may
he enlarged in equal comparison W-th any
enlargement of the abattolr.
Process of Evaporation.
A very full and interesting description
of the concern is given in the report, and it
is stated that the entire plant is provided
with drainage. but none of the refuse from
the dissecting room and laboratory nor of
the quarantine stables gets into the sewer
system, being collected in pits constructed
for the purpose and evaporated to dryness
in the Podewifs apparatus. The powder
obtained in the f1ayer's disinsector from the
remains of the carcasses is similar to
coarse grained brown garden mould; Is but