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did not appear to be any power under the Diseases of Animals Acts to give financial
aid, the governors were informed that the Council was unable to accede to their
request.
During the year the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries issued an Order,
entitled the Transit of Animals Order, 1927, together with an amendment thereof,
dated 9th May, 1927, which came into operation on 1st June, 1927. This Order
consolidates and amends the provisions of the Animals (Transit and General) Order
of 1912, and its amending Orders relating to the transit of animals by land in Great
Britain, and by sea between ports in Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and
the Isle of Man, and coastwise in Great Britain. The necessary steps were taken
to bring the provisions of the new Order to the notice of the persons concerned.
Those provisions of a general character relating to diseases of animals which
were formerly included in the Order of 1912 have been embodied in a new Order
entitled the Animals (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order of 1927, which came into
operation on 1st June, 1927. This Order contains a new provision which empowers
an inspector of the Ministry or the local authority to require special disinfection of
slaughterhouses in particular cases with a view to preventing the spread of disease.
The necessary steps were taken to bring the provisions of the new Order to the notice
of the persons concerned.
Article 2 (1) of the Markets, Sales and Lairs Order, 1925, provides that lairs
which adjoin market premises and are used for the reception or temporary detention
of animals offered for sale must be paved in accordance with the requirements of
that Order and licensed by the local authority concerned. The Council was satisfied
that these conditions have been complied with in connection with the lairs adjoining
the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, and the necessary licence was accordingly
granted authorising the use of the lairs as from 1st July, 1927.
CHAPTER IV.
MAIN DRAINAGE.
The district drained by the London main drainage system has an area of nearly
152 square miles with an estimated population of 5,624,900. This includes an area
of nearly 36 square miles, with a population of 1,009,500 outside London. When
the district of Walthamstow is incorporated in the area served by the system in
accordance with the provisions of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1925, nearly 7 square miles, containing a population of over 125,500 will be added.

The sludge vessels made 1,831 trips and travelled altogether 202,300 nautical
miles.
For some years past experiments have been undertaken in connection with
the biological treatment of sewage on the activated sludge basis, using various types
Trannsit of
animals.
Disinfection
of slaughterhouses.
Markets.
Sales and
Lairs Order.
1925.
Drainage
area and
statistics.
Sewage
treatment.