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Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.

Description of the abattoirs of Paris / by Richard Boxall Grantham ; with an abstract of the discussion upon the paper.

The cattle traffic / by Francis H. Rowley.

On the painless extinction of life in animals designed for human food / by Henry MacCormac.

Mr. Spear's report to the Local Government Board upon a prevalence of typhoid fever locally ascribed to certain slaughter-house premises at New Brighton, near Birkenhead.

The health commissioner's refutation of the health commissioner's answer to the Bureau of municipal research on health violations in East Side slaughter houses.

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Description of the abattoirs of Paris / by Richard Boxall Grantham ; with an abstract of the discussion upon the paper.

The cattle traffic / by Francis H. Rowley.

On the painless extinction of life in animals designed for human food / by Henry MacCormac.

Mr. Spear's report to the Local Government Board upon a prevalence of typhoid fever locally ascribed to certain slaughter-house premises at New Brighton, near Birkenhead.

The health commissioner's refutation of the health commissioner's answer to the Bureau of municipal research on health violations in East Side slaughter houses.