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lish notice by placards, handbills, or otherwise, of the existence of
glanders or farcy in any stable, building, or other place, and to continue
such publication during the existence of the disease, and until the
place has been cleansed and disinfected. Movement or exposure of
diseased horses on a highway or thoroughfare is forbidden by section
18 of the Order (sub-section d); and movement and exposure of dung,
fodder, or litter which has been in contact with or used about a
diseased horse (except under license of the Local Authority, after
everything moved has been disinfected,) is forbidden by section 20.
The 19th section empowers the Inspector or other officer of the Local
Authority to sieze an exposed horse, and if the same is found to be
affected with glanders or farcy, to have it slaughtered. Section 21
empowers the Local Authority to cause the carcase of any horse that
has died of glanders or farcy, or has been slaughtered in consequence
of being affected with either of these diseases, to be buried as soon as
possible in its skin (which is first to be so slashed as to make it useless),
and to be covered with quick-lime and not less than six feet of earth.
Or the Local Authority may (if authorised by license from the Privy
Council) cause the carcase to be disinfected, and afterwards removed
to an approved place, there to be destroyed by heat or by chemical
agents.
From the information I procured, it appeared that the law had not
been complied with in several respects, e.g.—
1. Notice of horses affected with glanders or farcy had not been
given to the Police.
2. Glandered horses had not been kept separate from horses not
affected.
3. Glandered horses had been exposed on public highways and
thoroughfares.
4. Carcases of glandered horses had not been buried or destroyed.
5. Carcases of glandered horses had been removed to a knacker's
premises at Wandsworth without authority.
6. Dung had been exposed and removed contrary to the Order.
7. Glandered and other horses, in considerable numbers, had
been slaughtered at Blechynden Mews contrary to the provisions
of "The Slaughter Houses (Metropolis) Act, 1874,"
clause 2 of which Act imposes a heavy penalty for the offence