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area specified in the Act. This power is vested in the Council with special reference to the protection
of its drains and sewers. The consent of the local authorities (the City Corporation and the metropolitan
borough councils) has also to be obtained to work proposed by the company. By Section 13
of the company's Act of 1893 it is provided that the company shall, if required by the Council, supply
copies of any maps, plans or sections in its possession showing any mains or pipes laid down.
During the year 16 applications from the company to lay extensions of mains were considered
by the Public Control Committee, and, after examination, the Council's consent was given in each
case.
Appeals.
It is the duty of the Appeal Committee to hear and decide any appeals made under the undermentioned
Acts—
(1) Section 211 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, which allows an appeal against an order
of any metropolitan borough council in relation to the level of any building or any order or act of the
borough council in relation to the construction, repair, alteration, stopping or filling up or demolition
of any building, sewer, or drain.
(2) Sections 37, 41 and 43 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which provides for an
appeal against any notice or act of a metropolitan borough council in relation to the provision or
alteration of water closets, ashpits, earth-closets, privies or cesspools and also in relation to the construction,
covering, filling up or other alteration of a drain.
Three appeals under section 211 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, were considered
during the year. The first appeal was against a notice of the Hampstead Metropolitan Borough
Council in regard to repairs to drains at No. 226, Finchley-road. A preliminary objection was raised
on behalf of the borough council. The objection was allowed and the appeal accordingly dismissed.
The second appeal was against the refusal of the Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council to approve
a plan for the re-drainage of No. 105, South-hill-park. The appeal was dismissed. The third appeal
was against an order of the Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council in regard to the drainage
of No. 226, Finchley-road, referred to above. As the appellant had not supplied the necessary plans and
did not appear in support of the appeal, the appeal was dismissed.
Diseases of
Animals,
The Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903, make provision for the prevention, diminution
and suppression of contagious diseases in animals, and are enforced in London partly by the Board of
Agriculture and Fisheries and partly by the Council and the City Corporation. The Acts are supplemented
by Orders made by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, dealing with infectious disease
among animals and the areas in which such disease exists.
The Acts and Orders are administered in London outside the City by the Council, and in the City by
the Corporation, which body is also responsible, as port sanitary authority, for enforcing the provisions
of the Acts relating to foreign animals. The powers of the Council are exercised by the Public Control
Committee as the executive committee.
The Council's outdoor staff for the administration of the Acts consists of four veterinary
inspectors, and certain other inspectors, who devote their whole time to the work.

During the year the Council has had under consideration the general results of its administration
of the Glanders or Farcy Order of 1907, and the question of the desirability of additional powers being
conferred upon local authorities to facilitate the efforts made with a view to the extirpation of the disease.
The two most serious difficulties with which the Council has had to contend in connection with the
extirpation of glanders have been the very large number of latent cases of the disease disclosed in some
studs, and the recurrence of disease in a few studs. Experience proves that the spread of glanders has
been largely due to the failure of horse owners to take adequate measures for the protection of their horses,
and to the neglect of one of the most important precautions advocated by the Council, namely the
malleining of all newly purchased horses. The latter cause has led to the introduction of glandered
animals into stables where previously the disease was non-existent, and its re-introduction into stables
where the disease had been previously eradicated at considerable expense.
(а) This disease was scheduled in 1904.
(b) This disease was scheduled as regards London in 1909, the Order coming into force on 1st June, 1909.
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