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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911
Diseases of
animals.
The Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1910, make provision for the prevention, diminution
and suppression of contagious diseases in animals, and are enforced in London partly by the Board of
Agriculture and Fisheries and partly by the Council and the City Corporation. The Acts are supplemented
by Orders made by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, dealing with infectious disease
among animals and the areas in which such disease exists.
The Acts and Orders are administered in London outside the City by the Council, and in the City
by the Corporation, which body is also responsible as port sanitary authority, for enforcing the provisions
of the Act relating to foreign animals. The powers of the Council are exercised by the Public
Control Committee.
The Council's outdoor staff for the administration of the Acts consists of four veterinary
inspectors, and certain other inspectors, who devote their whole time to the work.

Outbreaks.
(a) This disease was scheduled in 1904.
(b) This disease was scheduled as regards London in 1909, the Order coming into force on 1st June, 1909.
Details were given in the last annual report† of the reasons which actuated the Council in urging
the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to amend the Glanders or Farcy Order of 1907, so as to provide :
(i.) That the local authority be empowered to collect and destroy infected or suspected nosebags or other
articles not easily capable of disinfection and used in connection with glandered horses.
(ii.) That the local authority in all cases be empowered to re-test after a period of a month or six weeks
from the first test, a stud of horses in which there has been disease.
(iii.) That the proprietors of horse repositories be required to disclose to the local authority the name and
address of any vendor of a horse if the animal is subsequently found to be glandered, together with the names
and addresses of the purchasers of any other animals then sold from the same stud.
(iv.) That the control of the local authority be maintained over any horse which has been tested with
mallein so long as a definite result is not obtained from the test, provided that such control should not extend
beyond a maximum period of three months.
As a result, the Board suggested that the Council should confer with the local authorities of
districts adjacent to London upon the question generally, and as to the “desirability of the formation
of a joint committee under section 39 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, for the purposes of administering
the Glanders or Farcy Order of 1897 throughout the whole of the police area and the City of
London.” A conference was accordingly convened with representatives of the Corporation of the
City of London, the councils of the home counties and the authorities of other areas adjacent to London.
The conference was not in favour of adopting the suggestion of the Board as to the establishment
of a joint committee, but resolutions were passed approving the Council's proposals to amend the Order
of 1907. The decisions of the conference were conveyed to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries who
subsequently intimated that it was prepared to amend the Order in accordance with the Council's
proposals, with the exception of that relating to maintenance of control for a longer period over
animals in whose cases the mallein test had not produced definite results.

†Annual Report of the Council, 1910, vol. iii., p. 187.