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Compensation amounting to £3,358 8s. was paid by the Council in respect of horses slaughtered
during the year. 19 infringements of the Order were detected, and in one case legal proceedings
were taken, a penalty of £2 12s. 6d. being inflicted.
Parasitic
mange.
During the year the Board of Agriculture issued the Parasitic Mange Order, 1911 (to
come into force on 1st January, 1912). The Order extends to the whole of Great Britain the
provisions of the several local Orders which have been in operation for dealing with this disease
and revokes such Orders, including the London (Parasitic Mange) Order of 1909. The terms of the new
Order are practically identical with those of the revoked Orders, but it contains certain new
provisions:—(a) parasitic mange is included in the list of diseases to which the Animals (Notification of
Disease) Order of 1910 applies, so that veterinary surgeons and practitioners will be required to give
notice of the existence or suspected existence of this disease met with in their private practice, to the
local authority, which is required to pay a sum of 2s. 6d. for each notification; (b) the cleansing and
disinfection of infected places and articles, and the methods to be employed in such cleansing are provided
for in the Order; (c) in addition to making it an offence to fail to give notice of the existence of disease,
or to move an animal placed under a detention notice without the consent of the local authority, the
new Order makes it illegal to expose an affected animal for sale or to move such an animal along a
highway or thoroughfare, except with the written authority of an inspector of the local authority, or
to cause such an animal to be conveyed by vessel or railway.
Swin fever.
The Board of Agriculture during the year also issued the Swine Fever Order, 1911, intended to
give effect to certain recommendations of a departmental committee appointed by the Board to inquire
into swine fever. The new Order provides, among other things, that movement licences are in future
to be available for eight days instead of for six as hitherto, that pigs moved for slaughter under
a licence issued under the Swine Fever (Regulation of Movement) Order need not be conveyed in a
vehicle, and that vehicles, crates, etc., used for the conveyance of swine must be thoroughly cleansed
and disinfected after use.
A further Order, issued by the Board in the course of the year was the Wandsworth District
(Swine Fever) Order of 1911. The order, which came into force on 9th December, 1911, applied only
to a small district in the south of Wandsworth, and was issued in consequence of outbreaks of swine
fever in that district. Similar restrictions were placed on the movement of pigs into the district as are
imposed by the Swine Fever (Regulation of Movement) Order, 1908, but it was provided that swine should
only be moved out of the district for immediate slaughter if a movement licence had been issued on the
owner's declaration, and if marked as provided for in the Order. Power was also given to an inspector
of the Board of Agriculture or of the Council to apply the provisions of the Order to any premises in
the neighbourhood by the service of a notice on the occupier.
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