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Medical Officer's Report.
When any local authority has provided a public slaughter-house power
should be conferred on it to prohibit slaughter in any other place, except that
a period of three years be allowed to the owners of existing registered private
slaughter-houses to apply their premises to other purposes; also to require
all meat brought into the district to be inspected, and reasonable charges
made for this inspection. Also that the joints of all carcases passed as
sound shall be stamped; and that it shall not be lawful to offer for sale the
meat of any animal which has not been killed in a duly licensed slaughterhouse.
No person is to be permitted to act as a meat inspector until he has
passed a qualifying examination; and that the Local Government Board
should issue instructions for the guidance of meat inspectors as to the seizure
of a carcase or a part thereoof.
2. Milk.—That notification of every disease in the udder of cows shall
be made compulsory. That powers should be given to Local Authorities for
the purpose of excluding from their districts the milk of cows suffering from
tuberculosis of the udder, or exhibiting clinical symptoms of the disease, and
to slaughter any such cow ; and if it appears that the cow was not so suffering,
the Local Authority should pay the full value of the cow immediately before
slaughter.
Also that Local Authorities should have powers for making analyses for
tubercle bacilli in milk sold in their districts, and in foreign milk at the port
of entry.
That the Local Government Board should be empowered to require
Local Authorities to adopt regulations as to dairies, cow sheds, and milk
shops, where it is not already done.
3. Elimination of Bovine Tuberculosis.—That funds should be
placed at the disposal of the Board of Agriculture in England and Scotland,
and of the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council in Ireland, for the
preparation of tuberculin, and that the gratuitous services of a veterinary
surgeon should be offered to stock-owners on condition that the reacting
animals are isolated from the healthy ones, and are kept under satisfactory
sanitary conditions.
That Agricultural Societies should distribute leaflets giving information
respecting the above.