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The existing laws and regulations in regard to the occurence
of Anthrax and the prevention of the spread of this disease
are complicated. They may be summarised as follows
Administration.—The Order of the Board of Agriculture,
17th January, 1899, made in pursuance of the Diseases of Animals
Acts, 1894 & 1896, provides that every person having in his
possession an animal affected with, or suspected to be affected
with anthrax shall, with all practical speed give notice of the
fact to a constable of the police force within the area wherein
the animal is or was. The constable shall forthwith give the
information received by him to the inspector. This inspector
is not the ordinary sanitary inspector, but one appointed by
the Board of Agriculture or the Local Authority for the performance
of special duties under the Diseases of Animals Acts.
The inspector shall in his turn give information to the Medical
Officer of Health of the sanitary district, and he shall also
proceed to the place to see executed the necessary requirements
of the Order.
The Local Authority shall instruct a veterinary inspector
to institute an inquiry and report theron.
The Order provides that the milk of a diseased cow shall
not be removed. It also provides restrictions on the removal of
animals out of or into the infected place, and for the disposal
of the infected carcase and disinfection There is no legal provision
by which the sale of milk from the other cows at the farm
or from any suspected animal could be prohibited.
The Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order prohibits
the sale of, or mixing with other milk, that obtained from a
diseased animal.
Section 71 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891—and
in districts outside London, Section 4 of the Infectious Diseases