Volume 4

The meat industry and meat inspection : a comprehensive account of the principal animals and fish, including cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and game, supplied to the British meat market, together with a description of the various industrial processes connected therewith and the scientific inspection of meat / by Gerald R. Leighton and Loudon M. Douglas.

  • Leighton, Gerald Rowley, 1868-
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: The meat industry and meat inspection : a comprehensive account of the principal animals and fish, including cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and game, supplied to the British meat market, together with a description of the various industrial processes connected therewith and the scientific inspection of meat / by Gerald R. Leighton and Loudon M. Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    as the butchers' jury. This body took its origin in a resolution adopted by the Markets and Fairs Committee, together with a large number of butchers, fishmongers, game-dealers and others, which resolution stated that the butchers and dealers so nominate as many members of their trade, or persons who have been members thereof, as they may think fit, City Meat Market ... Public Slauohtebhouses Birmingham Opnul IISS Plan showing the Arrangements of the Birmingham City Meat- market AND Public Slaughterhouses from which number the Markets and Fairs Committee shall select not more than six, for the purpose of assisting such committee in the work of inspection. That the fishmongers, game- and poultry-dealers, &c., shall nominate as many members or former members of their trades as they may think fit, from which number the Market and Fairs Committee shall select not more than six for the purpose already stated. That when a seizure of any animal carcase, portion thereof, or any fish, game, poultry, &c., has been made by the inspectors, if the person to whom such belongs disputes the opinion of such inspectors, he may call in three of the selected members of the trade in order that they may give their opinion thereon. That no person be allowed to view anything that has been seized except the person to whom it belongs and the three selected members of the trade. That the M.O.H. and the veterinary inspector will, in the exercise of the power conferred upon them, give a final decision upon any matter in dispute. This butchers' jury, which, it will be observed, is selected from