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ill, their medical attendants were communicated with and apparently
neither of them were suffering from glanders. In my Annual Report
for 1905 (pp. 55, 56), in commenting on the deaths of two persons in
Westminster from this complaint, I drew attention to the desirability
of intercommunication between the County and Borough Councils in
this matter.
In pursuance of Articles 11, 12 and 17 of the Glanders or Farcy
Order of 1907 the County Council made the following regulations:—
"1. A diseased animal shall be conspicuously marked by or under
the direction of a veterinary inspector 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.
"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 thoroughly 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 thoroughly 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—
"(a.) A 1 per cent. (minimum) solution of chloride of lime
containing not less than 30 per cent. of available chlorine; or
"(b.) A 5 per cent. (minimum) solution of carbolic acid (containing
not less than 95 per cent. of actual carbolic acid) followed by
a thorough sprinkling with limewash; or
"(c.) A disinfectant equal in disinfective efficiency to the abovementioned
solution of carbolic acid, followed by a thorough
sprinkling with limewash.
"6. All places, utensils, mangers, feeding troughs, pens, hurdles or
other things, vans, carts or other vehicles required to be cleansed and
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