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19 on being constructed, and inspected, so as to have regard alike to humanity to animals, the healthiness of the meat supply, and the decent comfort of the unfortunate operators. It is in such large establishments alone that we can hope to see merciful lethal apparatus introduced.

But the true moral of all that can be said on the subject of improvement of slaughter-houses and methods of slaughtering would appear to be that, as numberless instances all round us show the possibility of healthy and happy human lives being lived without recourse to the butcher, the ultimate object to be aimed at is the gradual education of public opinion up to the point of looking on both butchers' shops, and slaughter-houses as relics of barbarism.