Humane Slaughtering of Animals

To the Editor of The Hospital and Health Review. Sir,?There are few questions at present before the public which can compare in importance with that of slaughterhouse reform. There is the cruelty of killing animals by old-fashioned and inefficient methods, there is the insanitary condition of the slaughterhouse and consequent contamination of the meat, there is thewholesale poisoning of the meat itself by subjecting the animals to totally unnecessary suffering and distress. It is well known that a mother may poison her baby by the condition produced in her milk through anger or fright, and who can say how much the increase in cancer and other