[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The ins]3ection and classification, and subsequent stamping of the meat according to the latter, is also carried out as at Essen by Inspectors of the Municipality. The removal of the meat from the cold stores to the shops of the butchers is undertaken by a carrying company, and is effected in specially constructed covered carts, in which the carcases, joints, etc., are separately suspended in transit. It is worthy of note, and possibly a ground of adverse criticism in connection with these establishments, that the lairages in which the various classes of animals are housed are not placed in immediate proximity to the slaughter-houses in which such animals are killed. It would seem at least a more convenient arrangement to place the several lairages and slaughter-houses in proximity, and, so long as the disconnection of the two is com¬ plete, there would appear to be no conceivable objection to it. Herr Musmacher, the resident engineer at the abattoirs, furnished the following particulars regarding their cost, together with certain other business details: — The entire cost of the establishment was 8,000,000 marks, or £400,000. 44ie cost of the cattle and other markets was 4,000,000 marks, or £200,000. Two-thirds of the total sum was expended on buildings and plant, one-third upon lands and roads. The site alone cost 1,300,000 marks, or £65,000. The gross revenue derived by the Municipality from the abattoirs amounts to eight per cent, upon the total outlay. The interest upon borrowed capital swallows up three per cent, of this, and allowance for depreciation one per cent, more, leaving four per cent, net profit after paying all expenses. By dwelling at such length on the subject of abattoirs, the deputation do not mean to imply that these should be at once established in Nottingham, but, having had an opportunity of thoroughly inspecting two sets out of the vast number now in use on the Continent, and one of these certainly a model in almost all