In the rst place, the-pig problem! is not. a new one but has been. brought more forcibly to the attention of the public since hostilities compelled the unloading of pigs on the Settlement and Concession Bunds. 'As there was no publicity when pigs Were' unloaded at Changwhapang {Woosung), Yangtzepoo and Nantao few. people were interested in investigated the business. The SisP.cA. has, however, Kept in touch with the matter for the past five years, the Inspector and Committee members visiting discharge points, Inirages and slaughter houses. The Society has been repeatedly in correspondence or consultation with the several authorities within whose: jurisdiction the matter lay, i. the interested municipal departments of Greater Shanghai, the Settlement and the Concession, In the Seitiement our Inspector was given every foellity to inspect trucks for overloading or other malpractice and per~ mission to visit private slaughter houses, all of which are under P.ID. supervision. In the Concession there are no private abattoirs.
By applying S.M.C. Motor Freight Vehicle Licence Clause (cond. 17 and 18) which provides respectively for the use of material to prevent slipping and against over-crowding the Inspector was repeatedly able to obtain Police prosecution of offend. ers. Beside transport by truck a smaller number of pigs were brought by wheelbarrow from the Western district, Our Inspector and members studied this process, and our corres pondence with the Municipal Authorities received sympathetic _atten-Vion. In 1934 a humane clause (and. 16) was added to the SMC. wheelbarrow Ieence conditions by which a Police Constable may take action when an animal is being conveyed in such a way as to cause preventable suffering. Tt should be noted the loading takes place onl side municipal areas,
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