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London County Council 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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worth, on the 12th September. He was probably infected by a glandered horse which stood in a
stable belonging to the deceased and which had been slaughtered on the 16th August.
The three last deaths were registered as being due to glanders.
In 1906 the Council decided to appoint a permanent staff of veterinary inspectors wholly
employed in their service, and the Board of Agriculture made an Order requiring in London the
notification of cases of glanders in animals to veterinary surgeons. In 1907 a new Order was made by
the Board which came into force on the 1st January, 1908. This Order, which extends to England
and Wales and Scotland, includes in the definition of diseased an animal in which the application of
the mallein test has resulted in definite evidence of disease," and requires the slaughter of all diseased
animals, the compensation for diseased animals being raised to one half their value, with a maximum
of £25 for a horse. The Order further authorises the detention of "suspected animals " or animals
which have been exposed to infection, the application of the mallein test to such animals with the
permission of the owner, and imposed the obligation on the local authority to employ such test on
the demand of the owner.
Meteorology.
The tables published in the Annual Summaryof the Registrar-General, deduced from observations
at Greenwich under the superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, show that the mean temperature
of the air in 1907 was 49.7 deg Fahrenheit, or 0.4 degrees below the average of the preceding 65
years. The rainfall during the year amounted to 22.25 inches, a decrease of 1.87 inches on the average
of the preceding 65 years. The temperature and rainfall in each month of the year 1907 are shown
in the following table :—

Temperature and Rainfall—1907.

Month.Temperature of the air.Departure of mean monthly temperature from average of 65 years, 1842-1906.Rain.
Absolute maximum.Absolute minimum.Mean for month.Number of days it fell.Amount collected.
deg. F.deg. F.deg. F.deg. F.Inches.
January512238.3—0.1101.09
February512437.6—2.2141.27
March692444.0+ 1.5100.91
April722947.4—0.7163.14
May823453.4—0.4181.47
June764357.8—2.5152.65
July794360.0—3.7130.97
August794461.6—1.3131.92
September833558-7+0.560.62
October6836511+0.7243.25
November602944.8+ 1.492.23
| December572841.6+2.0152.73