[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Aldershot U.D.C.
- Aldershot (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Aldershot U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![From a consideration of the list of towns with i)ul)lic abattoirs, it ap[)ears that a large number of these towns have been able to |)ro\’ide and carry on the inanag^enient of public slaugliter-houses without any loss to the ratej)avers, and, indeed, in some instanc'es wdth j‘)ecuniar\’ ])rofit. I imagine that the measure of success in most of these places is in direct proportion to the amount of assistance and co- o])eration given by the local meat dealers, and in inverse pro- ])ortion to the number of existing private slaughter-houses. In this connec'tion it is to be noted that many of the above-mentioned districts are County lloroughs which have had the privilege of obtaining local Acts of Parliament, and of thus ac(]uiring, (dosing, or otherwise i)reventing the comi^etition of private slaughter-houses. d'lie o[)inion of the Clerk should, however, be obtained upon the financial part of the (Question, as rc\'ealed by the above figures. d'he establishment of a new u])-to-date model abattoir in this district would probably be too costly to be con- sidered seriously, unless one could guarantee that all animals slaughtered in the to^^■n w'ould be slaughtered in the public abattoir and nowhere else. A much less costly scheme would be to acc]uire the present slaughter-house in Prighton Road, to enlarge it somewhat, and to malce such alterations as would be necessary to make it perfect from a sanitary [loint of view. Put, as you will ha\’e noted amongst the recorded opinions of the local butchers, Mr. W'adley, of Ash Road, who is the only occupier in the t(jwn of an entire slaughter-house, is not agreeable to any altera- tion of his arrangements unless he is, as he exjiresses it, “bought out.' All the other butchers would co-operate in using a ])ublic abattoir, probably because (i) the present facilities for slaughtering are limitea.l owing to there being so few slaughter-houses, and (2) they would hud it less exjicnsive. fhey, however, would object to being com- pelled to use a public abattoir unless both Mr. Wkidley and Mr. \hnson (who at present kills at Farnham on pro- perty held on lease) were ])laced under the same conditions. Having therefore collected the material facts of the ouestion, I beg to present them for the consideration of the Committee. Your o’ edirnt servant, F. \V. Rout LEY.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29524751_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
