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Unsanitary Slaughterhouses in Philadelphia

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Aug 8, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 3.

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Unsanitary Slaughterhouses in Philadelphia

The unsanitary nature of the meat business is not confined to Chicago and London. Now comes a dispatch from Philadelphia telling of like conditions in that city. Twenty slaughter houses recently condemned by the board of health as unsanitary were permanently closed on the 24th ult. Sixteen other houses were improved by order of the board, and one proprietor who neglected to obey the order to improve his place was prosecuted. It is difficult to see how a slaughtering place could be made sanitary, or its products hygienic.