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The further provisions are under the following heads :—
Duty of Inspector to act immediately.
Veterinary Inquiry by Local Authority as to Existence of Anthrax.
Milk of Diseased Cow not to be removed.
Restriction on Movement of Animals out of or into Place of Outbreak.
Provision as to Removal of Dung, &c., out of Place of Outbreak.
Disposal of Carcases.
Digging up.
Disinfection in case of Anthrax.
Occupiers to give facilities for Cleansing.
Prohibition of Exposure or Movement of Diseased or Suspected Animals.
Movement of Animals, &c., with Licence of Board.
Powers of Board of Agriculture.
Local Authority to enforce Order.
Weekly Returns of Anthrax. ,
Extension of certain Sections of Diseases of Animals Act, 1894.
Presumption of Knowledge of Disease.
Offences.
Interpretation.
Revocation of Order.
Extent.
Commencement.
Short Title.
Vines v. North London Collegiate School.—This was an important case heard
in the Queen's Bench Division on 18th January, 1899, before Mr. Justice Lawrance
and Mr. Justice Channell, deciding that entry can only be exercised upon
reasonable ground, and in the case of obstruction it is for the magistrate to decide
whether the ground of entry is reasonable or not.
Warwick v. Graham.—This appeal case, as already related in Part III.,
settled the definition of the words, "proper lodging and accommodation" as
applied to the removal of the infectious sick to hospital. The Court held that the
words were directed to the protection of other persons from infection, and not
only to the treatment of the sick person.
Logsdon v. Booth.—This was an appeal by the London County Council against
a decision of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, to the effect that, relying on the
case of Booth v. Ferrett, such places as the Salvation Army Shelters, being
charitable institutions, were exempt from being registered as Common Lodging
Houses under the Lodging House Acts. The Court held that Booth v. Ferrett
was wrongly decided. The Lord Chief Justice said in the course of his decision : —
"It appears that the Acts of 1851 and 1853 (the Common Lodging House Acts),
are Sanitary Acts. They deal with houses to which the very poorest and most
wretched class of the population resort, and with conditions in which numbers of