New Britain herald., 1923-09-12
FAVOR CHANGES
 PUBLIC ABkTI0IR
Committee Wants Chill Room and
 Relristratlns Plant Built

The municipal ahattelT eommittei
 met last night and prepared re
 nort 10 he submitted to the eommeI council at its next meeting, recon
 mending the installation Of a ehil
 room and refrigerating plant at th'
 slaughter house, and urging m
 ereases in fees for slaughtering,
 The report follows,
 Your committee begs leave to re-
 port that they have investigated the need of more room and the eohstrue' tion of refrigerating system at the municipal slaughter house and nndi
 First, that the business of slaugh' tering as carried on there has out grown its present quarters, In fact, when the members of your commit tee visited the abattoir during the busy part of the day, 1t was so crowd ed that calves and beef were slaugh' tered at the same time could not be handled properly and In anywhere near sanitary way. Calves were bled upon the foor lying in offal and refuse. This condition had to be be- cause all the slaughtering had to bc done in the cooler hours of the morn- ing. As the heat of the day in- creased, the meat would become hy blown and as an actual fact your committee saw meat hanging on the hooks for only two hours which had become infested with yermin.
 Second. that a proper refrigerat- ing system consisting of an adequate chill room and storage room and an automatic refrigerating machine is an absolute necessity. For the lack sof 1t, much business that should and would be done locally is being taken to Hartford by the local butchers. Again, what is more important is the fact that the Connecticut state department of health has passed a ruling under Chapter of the sani- tary code. Section 9. ordering all slaughter houses to, install a properly ventilated and refrigerated chilling and storage room. In view of these facts we have gone ahead and ascer- tained the probable cost to install and the upkeep to run the abattoir with the new equipment.
 We have also looked very care fully into the probable returns to the end that the proposition should and must be at least self supporting and must eventually pay back to the city the capital funds invested in it. To this end your committee in conjunc- ton at all times with Dr. Bray, pr. Pullen and Dr. Witte looked into the different methods of securing the needed refrigeration. With the CO., operation of the city engineer we de- vised the attached plans and blue prints for an addition to the present building. As to the refrigerating equipment we came to the conclusion, after careful consideration of numer- operation, that the equipment offered by the Automatic Refrigerating com pany of Hartford. contained in their hereto annexed would be by far the most satisfactory. In regard to the cork insulation for the chill and storage rooms the proposal of the Lotz Asbestos company of Hartford, Conn.,, has been decided upon as the best for our purpose. The brick con- struction can be done by the Trade School unit at a very nominal cost. Wiring, plumbing and other necessary work can also be done by them.
 Tn regard to the income we found that the fees charged locally are very much lower than those charged in other places for the same service so that the annexed resolution changing the fees and providing the charges for the refrigerating service are only in line with other places of like na- ture in the state"