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animals, and to require notices to be given where diseases occur, to secure
that infected premises are properly protected and disinfected ; for securing
the slaughter of animals suffering from certain diseases, and for compensation
for loss resulting therefrom. It regulates the movement of animals in cases
where infection has occurred, and deals with the importation, quarantine
and exportation of horses. It goes on to take measures for the prevention
of sheep scab, control of dogs, and dealing with poultry diseases.
Part II deals with the manufacture of veterinary therapeutic substances,
and Part III is general, and relates to powers and finances of Local Authorities,
duties of the Police, general administrative provisions, and offences and legal
proceedings.
(ii) Foot and Mouth Disease (Controlled Areas) Special Order
No. 3, 1951.—This Order specified an area including Ilford in which the
movement of animals was prohibited except under licence.
(iii) Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected Areas) Special Order
No. 28, 1951.—The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries extended the Special
Order declaring specified areas to be controlled areas to comprise the
Administrative Counties of London and Middlesex as infected areas.
Licences were issued permitting the entry into the Borough of 8 cows,
3 heifers in calf, 15 bullocks, 20 sheep and 35 pigs, and licences were countersigned
permitting the removal from the Borough of 3 cows, 20 calves,
15 bullocks, 20 sheep and 41 pigs.
(iv) Regulation of Movement of Swine (Amendment) Order, 1950.—
This Order came into operation on 8th January, 1951, and extended to the
whole of Great Britain the provisions of the Regulation of Movement of Swine
Order, 1950, which prohibited the sale of swine in any market fairground or
saleyard, unless authorised by the Local Authority and placed restrictions
on the movement of swine.
15 licences were issued for removal from the Borough of 40 swine and
4 licences were countersigned in respect of 34 swine which were moved into
the Borough.
(v) The Transit of Horses Order, 1951.—This Order regulates the
carriage of horses in rail and road vehicles. It requires (a) the vehicles to be
suitably constructed and fitted and to be cleansed and disinfected at intervals;
and (b) the horses carried in the vehicles to be fed and watered at intervals
and to be protected against inclement weather and injury from overcrowding.
(vi) Animals (Landing from Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle
of Man) Order, 1933.—A licence was received for the removal of a white
male goat from Birkenhead to Ilford.
(vii) Agriculture Act, 1937.—The following Orders came into operation
on 1st January, 1951 :—
(a) The Tuberculosis (Area Eradication) Order, 1950, the provisions
of which apply when the Minister declares an area to be an "Eradication
Area" or an "Attested Area," (under section 23 of the Agriculture Act,
1937), for purposes connected with the control of tuberculosis. The
provisions include the control of movement of cattle in such an area
and ancillary provisions designed to prevent the introduction or spreading
of tuberculosis.
(b) The Tuberculosis (Slaughter of Reactors) Order, 1950, which
empowers a veterinary inspector of the Ministry to require the owner
or person in charge of a bovine animal in an "Eradication Area" or
"Attested Area," to detain and isolate the animal where it is proposed
to cause it to be slaughtered as a reactor to the tuberculin test or because
it has been exposed to the infection of tuberculosis by contact with a
reactor. It provides for the method of ascertaining the compensation
value of any animal so slaughtered but the provisions of the Tuberculosis
Order, 1938, regarding bovine animals found to be infected with
tuberculosis otherwise than by a tuberculin test are not affected.
(e) The Tuberculosis (Compensation) Order, 1950, which sets out
the scale of compensation payable for bovine animals slaughtered under
the powers of the Agriculture Act, 1937, which have proved to be reactors
to the tuberculin test, or exposed to infection by tuberculosis.