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"9. That local authorities should be empowered to require the vaccination
or re-vaccination of persons in common lodging houses or casual
wards who are exposed to the infection of small-pox."
Having regard to the importance of the subject; to the
representative character of the conference; and to the fact
that the County Council have taken up the matter
in serious earnest, it may be reasonably hoped that legislative
proposals, in the direction indicated in the foregoing resolutions,
may, at no distant time, receive the consideration of
Parliament.
GLANDERS OR FARCY.
In my last report I stated that the Board of Agriculture
had issued a new Order dealing with these diseases of the
equine race, which owe some of their importance to the fact
that they are transmissible to man; and I explained the state
of the law with reference to the matter, as defined in the Order.
It is satisfactory to learn, from the annual report of the Chief
Officer of the Public Control Department of the London
County Council, that beneficial results have attended the
exercise of the more stringent powers conferred on the
Council, as the Local Authority under the Contagious
Diseases (Animal) Acts, in relation to this matter, there
having been "a striking reduction in the reported cases of
glanders during the year"—viz., from 2,331 in 1892-3, to
1,377 in 1893-4, or about 40 per cent. In the Western
District, which comprises the Parishes of Kensington, Fulham
and Hammersmith, the cases reported in the twelve months
ended 31st March, were 155. It is stated that "it has been
found practicable to obtain the slaughter of every animal
known to have been diseased, without the payment of compensation."
There were three deaths in the human subject
from this cause in London in 1893, the corrected annual
averages, 1883-92, being 2.1.