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ments relating to the keeping of records of the movement of animals.
Details, as set out in the Order, are to be kept of the movement of all bovine
animals (bulls, cows, oxen, heifers and calves) and retained for a period of 3 years.
This is to enable the movement of animals from farm to farm etc. to be traced when
tuberculosis is found in an animal, and so give the Ministry's veterinary officers
an opportunity of investigating the source of infection and tracing and examining
all animals which have been in contact with the infected animal. The records are
also useful when dealing with outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. Records relating
to sheep, goats and pigs have only to be retained for one year.
All stockholders were supplied with details of the new form of record and are
visited from time to time to ensure that the Order is being complied with.
Diseases of Animals (Waste Foods) Order, 1957
The officers of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food enquire very
thoroughly into the circumstances of each outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and
swine fever and report that all too frequently it is associated with swill feeding
either directly or indirectly.
Persons collecting and feeding waste swill to animals or poultry are required
to have proper boiling plant for this purpose and to hold a licence to operate the
plant under the above-mentioned Order from the Local Authority. No uncooked swill is
to be allowed to come into contact with the animals and all swill must be boiled for
at least one hour before being fed to them. The carriage of waste food is also controlled.
Nine such licences have been issued by the Council and the premises are visited by
the Public Health Inspectors, the temperature of the cooking swill checked and inspections
made of the vehicles bins, etc., to ensure that the requirements of the
Order are being met.
Importation of Dogs and Cats Order, 1928
During the year the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food approved a
further 20 kennels at the premises established at Mill Hill for the detention and
isolation of imported dogs undergoing quarantine.
The premises are under the control of qualified verterinary surgeons and the
total number of imported dogs which may be detained there at any one time is now 35.
When a licence is issued by the Animals Health Division of the Ministry authorising
the landing of a dog and its detention at these premises, a copy of the
licence is forwarded to this Council.
Dogs are required to be kept strictly isolated from all other dogs during the
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