staff. The Jewish system of inspecting every carcase that is killed is
rigorously carried out, with this improvement, that the inspector is a
man of scientific knowledge.

All animals used for food,--cattle, fowls, swine, rabbits,--are
subjected to examination in the slaughter-house, or in the market, if
they be brought into the city from other depôts. The slaughter-houses
are so constructed that the animals killed are relieved from the pain
of death. They pass through a narcotic chamber, and are brought to the
slaughterer oblivious of their fate. The slaughter-houses drain into
the sewers of the city, and their complete purification daily, from
all offal and refuse, is rigidly enforced.

The buildings, sheds, and styes for domestic food-producing animals
are removed a short distance from the city, and are also under the
supervision of the sanitary officer; the food and water supplied for
these animals comes equally, with human food, under proper inspection.

One other subject only remains to be noticed in connection with the
arrangements of our model city, and that is the mode of the disposal
of the dead. The question of cremation and of burial in the earth
has been considered, and there are some who advocate cremation. For
various reasons the process of burial is still retained. Firstly,
because the cremation process is open to serious medico-legal
objections; secondly, because, by the complete resolution of the body
into its elementary and inodorous gases in the cremation furnace, that
intervening chemical link between the organic and inorganic worlds,
the ammonia, is destroyed, and the economy of nature is thereby
dangerously disturbed; thirdly, because the natural tendencies of the
people lead them still to the earth, as the most fitting resting-place