THE BRIGHTON ABATTOIR, ETC.

I. REPORT OF MR. J. N. MERIAM, President of the Butchers' Slaughtering and Melting Association.

II. REGULATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

III. REVISED SANITARY REGULATIONS OF THE STATE Board oF HEALTH.

IV. ANALYSIS OF PEARL BUTTER.

V. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BUTCHERS SLAUGHTERING AND MELTING ASSOCIATION IN BRIGHTON, and for othER PURPOSES.

VI. AN ACT CONCERNING SWINE-SLAUGHTERING ASSOCIATIONS.

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THE BRIGHTON ABATTOIR, ETC.

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REPORT OF MR. J. N. MERIAM,

PRESIDENT OF THE BUTCHERS' SLAUGHTERING AND MELTING ASSOCIATION.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Health.

DEAR SIR:-The directors instruct me to make the following report. The past year has been one of progress at the abattoir. Eighty thousand dollars have been expended in new buildings on the grounds of the Association, including two blocks of dwelling-houses, put up by members of the Association. Two blocks of slaughtering-houses have been erected upon the same general plan of the others, with such improvements as our experience suggested. The last block built is the largest, and, in its apartments, equal, if not superior, to any of those previously erected; it is roomy, and will accommodate a large amount of work. There are now sixteen beef-slaughtering houses, whose full capacity is four hundred and fifty cattle a day.

With these additions, the Association has now provided facilities equal to the slaughtering of all the cattle, sheep and calves needed to supply the demands of Boston and vicinity. This will require that the work be so distributed that each house shall do something near its capacity. While the lessees of a number of the larger houses are now prepared to dress beef for other parties, to any extent that will probably be demanded of the Association, yet the time will come when another block will be called for, in order that each occupant may be allowed the privilege of doing only his own work. Fifty-three thousand four hundred and nineteen cattle, twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-six calves, three hundred

and three thousand two hundred and ten sheep, were slaughtered during the year ending December 31, 1874; of which. twenty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-five cattle, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand four hundred and six sheep, and one hundred and forty-three calves, were slaughtered during the months of August, September, October and November. The heads, feet, blood and offal of these animlas have been manufactured, at the rendering-house, into the several products of oil, grease, bones, hoofs and fertilizer. All of these products are of the very best quality, and find a ready sale at good prices. Only a part of the tallow produced at the abattoir has as yet been rendered at the works, much of it being taken away to small try-houses in and about Brighton.

This is all wrong, and we trust will very soon be remedied. All the rendering of tallow should be done at the renderinghouse, where all necessary devices and appliances are in readiness to perform the work without offence. The same success has attended the process (performing it without offence) as resulted from the first year's experience. The rendering-house is ample for the accomplishment of all the work that will be required of it for many years. Plans are now being matured by which the soup from the renderingtanks will be utilized, and this part of the work will be in operation within a few weeks.

A block of two tripe-houses, with stables, have been erected, and are now in process of completion. The foundations of a third house, also, have been laid, and are now waiting to receive the buildings, for which plans have been made and approved. When these buildings are finished and put in operation (which will be in the coming. season), they will be sufficient to treat all this material produced at the abattoir.

A one-story building, three hundred and eighty feet long, to be used as a storehouse, has just been completed. Beside three new buildings, put up within the yard to accommodate the business, it was found necessary to make quite extensive alterations and additions in and to the rendering-house, to perfect the working of the system. A part of the columns were found to be too slender to support the weight required of them, and were replaced by larger ones. A new elevator,