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Bethnal Green 1907

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1907 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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of the Council with the word "glandered," and with a
number, and no person shall remove, deface, or in any
way obliterate such mark.
2. A suspected animal shall be conspicuously
marked by or under the direction of a Veterinary
Inspector of the Council with the words "suspected of
glanders," and with a number, and no person shall
remove, deface, or in any way obliterate such mark.
As to cleansing and disinfection.
3. All places used by a diseased animal, and all
utensils, mangers, feeding troughs, pens, hurdles, or
other things used for or about any diseased animal,
shall forthwith, after such use, be sprinkled with one of
the disinfectants prescribed in Regulation 5, and afterwards
washed with water and scrubbed or scoured, and
then roughly disinfected.
4. Every van, cart, or other vehicle which has been
used for carrying any diseased animal on land otherwise
than on a railway shall immediately after each
occasion of such use be cleansed and disinfected in the
following manner
(a) The interior of such vehicle shall be effectually
cleansed by the application of steam to all parts
thereof.
(b) The interior of such vehicle shall then be
throughly washed with water containing one of the
disinfectants prescribed in Regulation 5.
(5) Every place or thing or vehicle required by these
Regulations to be disinfected shall be thoroughly coated
or washed with:—