§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the Minister of Health, whether, in view of the difficulties arising in connection with the inspection of the carcases of animals killed in private slaughter-houses and the impracticability of the establishment of public abattoirs by the smaller local authorities, he is prepared to introduce legislation to make the establishment of public abattoirs the compulsory duty of each borough, urban, and rural district council, either individually or in combination with one or more of the councils of adjoining or neighbouring districts, and for the abolition of all private slaughter-houses upon the establishment of such abattoirs?