Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health of Milwaukee (Twelfth Annual Report of the Department): January, 1879 Under this title I have discussed at considerable length the nuisance of promiscuous slaughtering and rendering in the city, the important subject of a public abattoir, the utility of a union stock yard, the prevention of cruelty to animals, and the sanitary need of a regular system of inspecting animals designed for human food. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.