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tuberculosis of the udder, or exhibiting clinical symptoms of
the disease, and to slaughter any such cow; and if it appears
that the cow was not so suffering, the Local Authority should
pay the full value of the cow immediately before slaughter.
Also that Local Authorities should have powers for
making analyses for tubercle bacilli in milk sold in their
Districts, and in foreign milk at the port of entry.
That the Local Government Board should be empowered
to require Local Authorities to adopt regulations as to dairies,
cow sheds, and milk shops, where it is not already done.
III.—Elimination of bovine tuberculosis.—That funds
should be placed at the disposal of the Board of Agriculture
in England and Scotland, and of the Veterinary Department
of the Privy Council in Ireland, for the preparation of tuberculin,
and that the gratuitous services of a veterinary surgeon
should be offered to stock-owners on condition that the
reacting animals are isolated from the healthy ones, and are
kept under satisfactory sanitary conditions.
That Agricultural Societies should distribute leaflets
giving information respecting the above.