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Specially referring to the difficulties and how they were overcome.
At the conclusion of the morning's proceedings the
delegates boarded two steam yachts and went up river to
Hampton for the purpose of viewing the great reservoirs. The
company was received at Hampton by the Chairman and
Members of the Water Board who conducted them, as far as
time would permit, over the works.
Saturday.—The delegates re-assembled, the first business
being to move votes of thanks to the various persons and corporate
bodies who had worked for the success of the
Conference.
The delegates subsequently visited Ealing Sewage Works,
Ealing Model School for Physical Training. The Conference
closing by a visit to the Model Bakery and New Zealand
Pavilion, etc., at the Japan-British Exhibition.
The Conference was the 25th held by the Sanitary Inspectors'
Association, and the general opinion of those attending
was that it was one of the most profitable from the Inspectors
standpoint that had yet been organised.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
(ANIMALS) ACTS.
Swine Fever.—The prevalence of Swine Fever throughout
the country has compelled the Board of Agriculture to keep in
force the Swine Fever (Regulation of Movement) Order of 1908,
which prohibits the removal of pigs, without a license, out of a
scheduled area into another area, or vice versa. In the case of
store pigs, before a license can be issued it is necessary for the
owner to sign a declaration that the pigs have been in their last
place of abode for 28 days, and that they are not suspected of
disease. Every care is taken to prevent the transmission of
Swine Fever from one area to another.
East Ham, for the purposes of the Swine Fever Order, is
part of the Metropolitan Area. During the year nearly 100
declarations were made and received, and licenses granted
authorising the removal in or out of the Borough of upwards of