Every tripe boiler shall cause the premises on which his business is carried on at all times to be well and thoroughly ventilated by suitable openings, windows, Louvre boards, or otherwise.

Water Supply.

Every tripe boiler shall cause the premises on which his business is carried on to be constantly provided with an adequate supply of water, which shall be received and stored in cisterns, or other suitable receptacles, properly constructed.

Lime-Washing and Cleansing.

Every tripe boiler shall cause every part of the premises on which his business is carried on to be thoroughly washed from time to time, as often as may be necessary, and to be kept at all times thoroughly clean.

He shall cause every inner wall of the premises on which his business is carried on to be kept at all times thoroughly

1 N. B.-The bye-laws are classified under the headings Ventilation, Water Supply, etc., so that the various Acts may be compared one with the other; the bye-laws themselves are not so arranged, but are, as a rule, simply numbered.

clean and in good order and repair. He shall cause every such wall to be thoroughly washed with hot lime-wash in the first week of each of the months of March, June, September, and December.

He shall cause every tub, box, vessel, boiler, or receptacle provided or used upon, or in connection with, the premises on which his business may be carried on, to be kept at all times thoroughly clean, so as to prevent any offensive smell.

Receptacles.

Every tripe boiler shall provide a sufficient number of tubs, boxes, or vessels, constructed of galvanised iron or other nonabsorbent material, and furnished with tight or close-fitting covers, for the purpose of receiving and conveying away all manure, garbage, offal, and filth. He shall, from time to time as often as occasion may require, cause such manure, garbage, offal, and filth to be placed in such tubs, boxes, and vessels, and to be removed from his premises without delay.

Every tripe boiler shall cause all offal or other materials. used in his business, when delivered on to the premises across a public footpath, to be conveyed in vessels properly covered and constructed.

As to dealing with Offensive Vapours.

Every tripe boiler shall cause every boiler or other vessel from which any offensive or noxious vapour or gas may be evolved in the operation of boiling, or otherwise to be properly covered, and in all other respects to be so constructed and used as to cause all such vapour or gas to be effectually conveyed into, or through, a furnace fire, or otherwise to be prevented from escaping into the external atmosphere.

Provisions as to Storage or Removal of Material.

Every tripe boiler shall remove, or cause to be removed, from the premises on which his business is carried on, every bone, fat, offal, garbage, or other similar article before it has become putrid or offensive.

Structure of Premises.

Every tripe boiler shall cause the premises on which his business is carried on to be well paved with asphalte, Yorkshire flag-stone, Stourbridge paving bricks, closely set in cement upon a bottom of 4 inches of good concrete, or with other suitable material, and to be laid with a proper slope and channel towards a gully, and to be effectually drained by an adequate drain of glazed pipes communicating with the public sewer, and properly ventilated. He shall cause such gully to be properly trapped, and to be covered with a grating, the bars of which shall not be more than three-eighths of an inch apart.

KNACKER'S BUSINESS (DATE OF BYE-LAWS 1876).

Ventilation.

The occupier shall cause the slaughter-house to be well and thoroughly ventilated.

Water-Supply.

The occupier shall cause the slaughter-house to be provided with an adequate tank or other proper receptacle for water and water supply, and so placed that the bottom thereof shall not be less than 6 feet above the level of the floor.

Lime-Washing and Cleansing.

The occupier shall keep every covered and other receptacle used in the slaughter-house at all times thoroughly cleansed and purified, so as to prevent any offensive smell.

The occupier shall keep the inner walls of the slaughter-house always thoroughly clean and in good order and repair, and shall cause the internal surface of the roof and upper portion of the walls to be thoroughly washed with quicklime, at least once in every three months, and he shall also keep every yard and other part of the premises clean.

Receptacles.

The occupier shall provide and keep a sufficient number of tubs, boxes, or vessels, formed out of proper non-absorbent

materials, with tight and close-fitting covers thereto, for the purpose of receiving and conveying away all manure, garbage, offal, and filth; and shall, in all cases, immediately after the slaughtering is completed, cause all such manure, garbage, offal, and filth, to be placed in such tubs, boxes, and vessels; and shall cause all the blood arising from the slaughtering to be put into separate tubs or vessels formed out of the like materials as above, with close-fitting covers; and every such tub, box, and vessel, together with their contents, to be removed from the premises within twenty-four hours.

As to dealing with offensive Vapours.

The occupier shall cause every boiler and vessel from which any offensive or noxious vapour or gas may be evolved in the operation of boiling or otherwise, to be covered over and constructed so that every such gas and vapour shall be effectually conveyed into or through a furnace fire, or shall be otherwise prevented from escaping into the external atmosphere.

Provisions as to Storage or Removal of Refuse.

The occupier shall cause every hide and skin to be removed from the premises within forty-eight hours after slaughtering, and every hide of a glandered or farcied horse, mule, or ass to be disinfected before removal.

The occupier shall remove, or cause to be removed from the premises, every carcase, bone, hide, skin, and all meat, fat, offal, blood, garbage, and other articles before the same have become putrid or offensive.

Structure of Premises.

The occupier shall cause the slaughter-house to be well paved with asphalte, or flag-stone, or proper paving bricks, set in cement, to be laid with proper slope and channel towards a gulley, and to be effectually drained by an adequate drain of glazed pipes, or in other sufficient manner communicating with the public sewer, and the gulley to be trapped by an appropriate trap, and to be covered with a grating, the bars of which shall not be more than three-eighths of an inch apart.

The occupier shall cause every inner wall of a slaughter-house to be covered with hard, smooth, impervious material, to the height of 4 feet at the least, and to be always kept in good order and repair.

Miscellaneous.

No animal fit for human food to be slaughtered in the premises.

No room over a slaughter-house to be inhabited.

Slaughter-house not to be used for any other purpose than for that which it is licensed.

No slaughtering to be conducted within public view.

Animals suffering from infectious diseases not to be removed, but information given to County Council and to the cattle inspector for the district.

CATGUT MAKER.

Ventilation.1

No catgut maker shall, after the expiration of twelve months from the date of the publication of these Bye-laws, open or permit to be opened any vessel or receptacle containing gut or other offensive material, or carry on or permit to be carried on, the process of cleansing and scraping the gut, except in a chamber constructed in accordance with the requirements of the bye-law in that behalf herein contained, and effectually closed so as not to allow any offensive smell to escape therefrom into the external atmosphere, or into the other parts of the premises.

Water-Supply.

Every catgut maker shall cause the premises on which his business is carried on to be constantly provided with an adequate supply of water, which shall be received and stored in a cistern or other suitable receptacle, properly constructed; or, in the case of a constant supply of water, by a pipe communicating with a water company's main.

1 The Close Chamber specially ventilated. See heading 'Structure of Premises.'