A total of 134 visits were made during the months of March and April by the inspector for the Shanghai Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals, according to a Report recently issued by the organization. Visits were made to abattoirs, lairages, markets, stables and many other places where animals are housed or worked, and the inspector reports that conditions, especially in the abattoirs, are such that almost constant attention is necessary to prevent needless cruelty to the animals.
Markets were visited thirty times and the inspector endeavoured mainly to prevent the inhumane killing of fowl Chinese in the markets were given instruction as to the proper methods to be used in carrying a fowl. The report states that pig and cattle lairages showed some improvement and that the mat-shed shelter erected on Route Dollfus had been replaced by a stronger structure. Seven visits were made to dog kennels and it was found that there was much room for improvement. This problem is now receiving the society's attention.
The most flagrant case of cruelty discovered by the inspector during the last two months took place at the Chokadoo abattoir where ponies, pigs and cattle were. being killed by repeated blows of an axe which wounded them in such a way that they slowly bled to death. The society has been doing as much as possible to remedy conditions at this abattoir, but the fact that it is located outside the Settlement limits makes any definite enforcement of regulations difficult. The society is doing its best however to prevent lame or injured animals from being sent to the establishment.
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