. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. aux Boenfs—slaughter-house yards; Magasins—storehouses ; F, Fonderies—melting-houses ; G, Ma-chine—engine-house ; H, Ecuries—stables; I, Voiries—manure pits. ligion required them only to eat fowls killed by a specialslaughterer, in accordance with the Talmudic ritual,insisted on keeping the poultry either in their sleeping-rooms or in coops in the basement of their crowded tene-ments. Within the past few years a special slaughter-house has been established at
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. aux Boenfs—slaughter-house yards; Magasins—storehouses ; F, Fonderies—melting-houses ; G, Ma-chine—engine-house ; H, Ecuries—stables; I, Voiries—manure pits. ligion required them only to eat fowls killed by a specialslaughterer, in accordance with the Talmudic ritual,insisted on keeping the poultry either in their sleeping-rooms or in coops in the basement of their crowded tene-ments. Within the past few years a special slaughter-house has been established at Gouverneur Slip,where thekilling of fowls is conducted in a proper manner, andVol. VII.—13 crowded neighborhood. In London the private slaugh-ter-houses are in some cases so situated that the animalshave to be driven through the butchers shop, or eventhrough a dwelling-house ; but it is self-evident that sucha system is radically wrong. (Ballard.) The slaughtering of animals should be carried on inbuildings as remote as possible from dwellings and in 193 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL Fig. 39S2.—Abattoir, foot of East Forty-fifth Street, New York. those specially built and adapted for the purpose, well drained, and fittedwith proper appliances for the disposition of the offal and buildings, known as abattoirs, are founded on the system preva-lent in ancient Rome, under the em-perors, when a guild or corporationof butchers supplied the entire citywith meat. The slaughter-houses,first scattered about the city, wereeventually confined to one market, under Nero, was oneof the most imposing and magnifi-cent buildings in the entire city, aswe learn from a medal which hastransmitted its description to thepresent day. As the Romans governed Gaul,they probably transferred the sys-tem to Paris, where a company wascharged with the business ofslaughtering the animals and withthe sale of the meat. As early as the reign o
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