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GLANDERS AND FARCY ORDER OF 1907.
This new Order came into operation on the 1st January, 1909.
It provides amongst other things that the Inspector of the Local
Authority (in London the County Council) shall give notice of all
cases of glanders and farcy to the Medical Officer of Health of the
sanitary district in which the animal died or was slaughtered, or in
which the carcase was at the time of the inspection. The clause
requiring such notice by the Inspector runs as follows:—
3. (1) Every person having or having had in his possession or
under his charge any diseased or suspected horse, aes,
or mule shall, with all practicable speed, give notice of
the fact of the horse, ass, or mule, being or having
been so diseased or suspected to a constable of the
police force for the police area wherein the diseased
or suspected horse, ass, or mule is or was.
(2) Every person licensed to slaughter horses who has in his
possession a carcase of any diseased or suspected
horse, ass, or mule shall, with all practicable speed,
give notice of that fact to a constable of the police
force for the police area wherein the carcase is.
(3) The constable receiving the notice shall forthwith give
information of the receipt by him of the notice to an
Inspector of the Local Authority, who shall forthwith
report the same to the Local Authority and also to
the Medical Officer of Health of the Sanitary District
in which the animal died or was slaughtered or hi
which the carcase was at the time of the notice.
(4) Where the notice of the disease relates to a carcase of an
animal that has died or been slaughtered in the
district of a Local Authority, other than the Local
Authority which receives the notice, the latter shall
forthwith inform the other Local Authority of the
receipt of the notice.