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which included our Borough— from Foot & Mouth Disease
Controlled Area restrictions.
For the period that these restrictions were in force, i.e. from
16th November, 1967 to 13th February, 1968, a total of 1,630
movement licences were issued by the department involving the
following number of animals:—
Cattle 9,339
Calves 2,246
Sheep & Lambs 34,140
Pigs 11,980
Goats 1
Total 57,706
During the whole of the year the Regulation of Movement
of Swine Order, 1959 remained in force and many movement
licences were issued and received in connection with our local
pig breeders sending their animals to market and the return
traffic of pigs from local market to slaughterhouses in our
district.
These licences require:—
(a) that any swine moved to a bacon factory or slaughterhouse
shall be detained there until slaughtered; and
(b)that swine moved to other premises must be detained and
kept separate from all other swine for 28 days from the
date of their arrival, but they may be moved during that
period for slaughter.
The Order does not prohibit the movement of any carcase
slaughtered in the premises during the 28 day period.
Five licences to operate boiling plants at local piggeries
were cancelled during the year, the total number remaining in
force at the end of the year being 16. These licences are issued
under the Diseases of Animals (Waste Food Order) 1957. Very
briefly, this Order requires the effective sterilization of all pig
swill in properly constructed boiling plant and equipment which
has satisfied us as to its efficiency for doing this particular job.
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