No. 2c.

RETURN
Of the number of Diseases and Accidents treated in the Auckland Gaol during the year 1858.

Wounds and other injuries .................................. 15
Dyspepsia .................................................. 14
Bronchitis ................................................. 4
Insanity ................................................... 4
Diarrhea ................................................... 3
Cephalalgia ............................................... 2
Hemoptysis ............................................... 2
Paronychia ............................................... 2
Opthalmia ................................................ 2
Gonnorhea ................................................ 2
Partial Paralysis ........................................ 2
Delirium Tremens ........................................ 2
Rheumatism .............................................. 2
Boils ..................................................... 2
Ulcers .................................................... 2
Influenza ................................................ 2
Colica .................................................... 1
Menorrhagia ............................................. 1
Peritonitis ............................................... 1
Hernia ................................................... 1
Periostitis ............................................... 1
Testitis .................................................. 1
Tenia ..................................................... 1
Piles ..................................................... 1
Mammary Abcess ........................................ 1
Disease of kidneys ...................................... 1
Common Catarrh ......................................... 1

73

T. F. McGAURAN,
Provincial Surgeon

No. 10.

RETURN
Of the Number of Patients who have received Medical Treatment during the year 1858.

Provincial Hospital—In Patients .......................... 225
Do. do. Out Patients ................................... 77
Lunatic Asylum ......................................... 39
City Gaol ............................................... 73
Stockade, Mount Eden .................................. 12

426

T. F. McGAURAN,
Provincial Surgeon.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR
THE MANAGEMENT OF
PUBLIC SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, February 5, 1859.

IN exercise of the powers vested in the Superintendent in that behalf by the provisions contained in the sixth section of an Act of the Provincial Council of Auckland, passed in the second session thereof, intituled "An Act to amend an Ordinance for Regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places" I do hereby make and promulgate the following Rules and Regulations for the management of Public Slaughter-houses within the said Province, and for other purposes in the said section specified:—

1. No Cattle shall be slaughtered on Sundays in any public Slaughter-house within the said Province.

2. On all other days such Houses shall be kept open during the hours hereinafter specified, for the slaughtering of cattle therein, and for skinning and dressing the carcasses of the cattle so slaughtered.

3. From the first day of May to the first day of November in every year, such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and from the said first day of November to the first day of the month of May, thence next ensuing, such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.; provided that for the said purposes the said Houses may be kept open three hours later on Fridays and Saturdays, and may be opened at 1 o’clock, a.m., on Mondays.

4. No cattle shall be slaughtered at any such House except during the times hereinbefore prescribed; and every such House shall be closed and securely fastened within one hour from and after the latest time to which, under these rules and regulations, the same may be kept open.

5. The keeper or lessee (as the case may be) of every such House shall cause the same to be kept clean, and to be washed out twice every day (Sundays excepted), and shall cause the walls thereof to be scraped and white-washed on the inside once in every month, or twice if deemed necessary; and shall cause all manure, offal, and refuse, to be conveyed away daily from the said House and its premises; and shall cause all Stockyards and Sheep-pens thereunto belonging or thereon erected, to be kept clean and in repair; all utensils, tackle, &c., used in the Slaughtering of Cattle to be kept clean, and in serviceable condition.

6. No cattle shall be allowed to run at large in any such House, or on the premises thereunto belonging.

7. Cattle taken to any such House to be slaughtered shall be slaughtered, skinned, and dressed in such House, and not elsewhere.

8. The carcass of every head of cattle slaughtered in any such House shall be skinned and properly dressed therein before the same or any part thereof shall be taken away therefrom.

9. Within 18 hours after the slaughter of any such head of cattle every part of the carcass thereof, and all matter thence proceeding, shall be taken away from such House and its premises.

10. Every person slaughtering Cattle at any such House shall pay the regulated fees for the same, and shall not remove therefrom, or injure, or destroy any of the slaughtering tools or implements, or any part of the yards or buildings thereunto belonging.

11. Every person slaughtering Cattle at any such House shall, previous to taking away or removing from such House any part of the carcass of any head of cattle so slaughtered, give to such keeper or lessee a statement in writing, with the name of such person thereunder written,