PUBLIC PLEASURE GROUNDS AND STREET TREES.
Law empowering acquisition and maintenance of parks, &c. — Duties of surveyor in connection therewith — Public playgrounds — A few hints — List of a few useful shrubs — Trees in gales — Planting trees at sides of streets — Qualities necessary in trees for this purpose — List of suitable trees — Precautions necessary — Grating and grill — Description of Paris planting — Cost of trees in Paris — Damage to street trees
CHAPTER XXVIII.
PUBLIC ABATTOIRS.
Necessity and law for their establishment — Defects of private slaughter-houses — Legal powers to close private slaughter-houses — Particulars of London private slaughter-houses — Site of public abattoir — The Manchester abattoir — Accommodation necessary — Lairs and pens — The killing-house — Floor, drainage, rings, pole-axe, lighting, &c. — Machinery for hoisting — Plans of public abattoir — Condemned meat department — Pig-killing department — Blood-house — Tripery — Tallow market — Other accommodation — Dr. Chancellor on slaughter-houses — Difference between public and private slaughter-houses
CHAPTER XXIX.
MARKETS.
Law authorizing their establishment — Site for a cattle market — Accommodation necessary — Paving — Cattle enclosures — Sheep pens — Dimensions of pens and lairs — Weighing machine — Markets for general merchandise — List of requirements — A few hints on their accommodation
CHAPTER XXX.
CEMETERIES.