§ Mr. GREENWOODasked whether, in view of the Report of the Royal Commissioners on Tuberculosis in 1898 that so long as private slaughterhouses are permitted to exist so long must inspection of meat be carried on under conditions incompatible with efficiency, besides other disadvantages and risks to health, he will introduce legislation to carry out their recommendation that power should be given to every local authority expending money in providing a public slaughterhouse to close all or any of the registered private slaughterhouses in the district?
§ The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. Burns)The question is under my consideration, but I may point out that a clause giving local authorities the powers suggested was contained in the Bill for the Public 1436 Health Amendment Act, 1907, but was struck out in Committee.