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Compensation is payable by the local authority for a slaughtered animalits
full value, and 20s. more if no tubercle is found on post-mortem—otherwise
in proportion to the extent of the disease found.—
The local authority, as in the act of 1894, is the Corporation of London or
the boroughs of 10,000 population and upwards at the census of 1881.
Precautions are to be taken with regard to the milk which comes from
any cow which is, or appears to be, suffering from chronic disease of the udder
or tuberculosis with emaciation.
Suspected animals exposed for public sale can be dealt with by the
veterinary inspector of the Authority.
Publications on Tuberculosis.
In March, 1913, the Departmental Committee issued their final report in
two volumes. Their interim report, it will be remembered, was presented in
April, 1912, and was chiefly concerned with the machinery suggested for the
treatment of the disease.
In this final report the Committee deal mainly with the measures which
should, in their opinion, be taken for the prevention of tuberculosis in general,
and a scheme for establishing special research work on the subject. The
Committee gave it as their opinion that bovine tuberculosis is the cause of
tuberculosis in man and to a greater extent in children, to whom it could be
conveyed in the milk supply. The Committee therefore consider it very
important that steps should be taken with a view to the ultimate eradication
of tuberculosis from animals and rendering milk and milk products, as far as
possible, free from tubercle bacilli.
At the beginning of the year the "National Association for the Prevention
of Consumption and Other Tubercle" issued a circular letter to local authorities
on the subject of after-care of patients who had been in sanitoria.