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into contact with the materials referred to unless and until such materials had been
boiled. The Order placed the burden of compliance both upon the person having
possession or charge of any of the foodstuffs or materials specified and also upon
any person having animals in his charge. Power was given to the Minister to
exempt by licence any proprietary foodstuff from the provisions of the Order.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries issued an Order entitled the Foot-andMouth
Disease Order of 1928, which came into operation on 1st April, 1928, and
consolidated and revised the existing Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order of 1895, and
amending Orders, and included certain amendments which experience of the
epidemics in recent years had proved to be desirable. Effect was given in the
Order to certain recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Footand-Mouth
Disease of 1925.
Article 23 of the Order provided that all regulations made by local authorities
require confirmation by the Minister, and that any existing regulations made under
article 10 of the Order of 1895 would cease to operate as from 1st July, 1928, unless
they had been submitted to and confirmed by the Minister. The Council on 21st
October, 1924, and 22nd June, 1926, made regulations in accordance with the
provisions contained in article 10 (1) (b) of the 1895 Order with regard to the
•cleansing of road vehicles used for animals. These regulations imposed under the
new Order and new regulations relating to the cleansing and disinfection of
lairs and of vehicles used for the conveyance of animals, made by the Council on
26th June, 1928, came into force on 1st July, 1928.
An Order entitled the Sheep Scab Order of 1928, which consolidated and amended
in certain respects the previously existing Sheep Scab Orders (including the Sheep
(Double Dipping) Order of 1920), was issued by the Minister of Agriculture and
Fisheries, and came into force on 1st April, 1928. The object of the Order is
to secure the maximum of effect in checking the spread of infection consistent
with the interests of the sheep trade. A number of new provisions are included
in the Order.
Sheep scab,
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries issued Orders entitled the Cattle
Plague Order of 1928 and the Pleuro-Pneumonia Order of 1928, which came into
force on 1st April, 1928. The Orders re-enact with amendments the Orders of 1895
relating to these diseases.
Cattle plague
and pleuro
pneumonia.
Instructions to persons responsible for the removal of bulls and unfit animals
from railway premises to the Metropolitan Cattle Market and abattoirs were issued
during the year.
Transit of
animals.
CHAPTER IV.
MAIN DRAINAGE.
The district drained by the London main drainage system has an area of nearly
159 square miles with an estimated population of 5,600,000. This includes an area
of nearly 43 square miles, with a population of 1,113,270 outside London. The
out-county districts draining into the London main drainage system and the years
of admission are as follows—Acton (part before 1855 and part from 1905); part of
Croydon (before 1855); Willesden, metropolitan area (before 1855); part of Beckenham
(1873); part of Hornsey (1874); Tottenham and Wood Green (1891); West
Ham (1900); East Ham—part (1900); Willesden, Brent area (1911); Leyton
(1927), and Walthamstow (1928). Very small parts of other districts are also
drained into the London system. The London County Council (Ilford and Barking
Drainage) Act, 1928, authorises the drainage of the areas mentioned into the London
main drainage system. When these areas drain into the London system, 19 square
.miles, containing an estimated population of 150,000, will be added.
Drainage
area and
statistics.