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transmit the information to the Local Authority, who, if
not themselves the Sanitary Authority, shall inform that
authority. I take it the Local Authority in London is the
County Council. The Order further requires a similar notification
from a Veterinary Surgeon who is employed to
examine any cow or bovine animal.
The Local Authority must cause any cow or bovine animal
supposed to be giving tuberculous milk, or suffering from
disease of the udder, to be examined by a Veterinary Inspector,
and the Inspector may, with the consent of the
owner, apply the tuberculin test. A Veterinary Inspector for
the purposes of the examination may at all reasonable hours
enter the premises where animals are kept and require any
cow to be milked in his presence and samples of the milk
taken. He may also take samples of the faeces or urine of
any bovine animal. Where the Local Authority is satisfied
that a cow is suffering from tuberculosis of the udder or
giving tuberculous milk, or a bovine animal is suffering from
tuberculosis with emaciation, they shall with all practicable
speed give notioe to the owner and cause the animal to be
slaughtered. Before the slaughter of the animal the Local
(Authority must agree with the owner as to the value of the
animal. The value is to be ascertained both on the supposition
that it is suffering from tuberculosis and also on
the supposition that it is not so suffering. If the animal is
found after slaughtering to have suffered from tuberculosis
not advanced, the Local Authority shall pay compensation of
a sum equal to three-quarters of the value of the animal as
valued for compensation, after deducting one-half the cost
of the valuation. If the animal is found to have suffered
from advanced tuberculosis the Local Authority must pay
a sum equal to one-quarter of the value or the sum of