21 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 21

JEWISH SLAUGHTER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No humane

person would wish to pursue Mr. Emanuel into his holiday haunts with such a disagreeable matter, but I feel bound to ask for further information in connexion with his statement that mattresses are used in " fifteen different slaughterhouses " for mitigating the severity of the casting process. What proportion of all the animals killed by the Jewish method are cast on mattresses ? Are mattresses used at any of the large slaugtherhouses other than that at Islington—e.g., at Birkenhead, Manchester, Leeds, Birming- ham, Edinburgh ? Are not the fifteen " slaughterhouses': all under the same roof ?—I am, Sir, &c.,

C. W. HUME.

14 The Hawthorns, Finchley, London, N. 3.