Model Byelaws. 16. The person by agreement with or by license from whom any tent, van, shed, or similar structure used for human habitation shall be erected, brought or used on any land, shall, in any case in which nuisance is likely to arise from the want of privy accommodation and of a receptacle for refuse for the use of the occupants of the tent, van, shed or structure, provide for their use on such land in a suitable situation sufficient privy accommodation, and a sufficient covered ashpit, dustbin, or other receptacle for refuse, and shall maintain the same in good repair and order and in a reasonably clean and wholesome condition. 17. The occupier of a tent, van, shed or similar structure used for human habitation shall not keep any animal, or deposit any filth or the dung of any animal, within the distance of forty feet from any well, spring, or stream, or other water used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drinks for the use of man, or any water used or likely to be used in any dairy, or otherwise in such a position or in such a manner as to render any such water liable to pollution. Penalties. 18. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the offence from the council. Provided, nevertheless, that the justices or court before whom any complaint may be made, or any proceedings may be taken in respect of any such offence, may, if they think fit, adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty imposed by this byelaw. Repeal of Byelaws.* 19. From and after the date of the confirmation of these byelaws, the byelaws with respect to tents, vans, sheds and similar structures used for human habitation, which were made by the on the and Board on the day of in the year one thousand hundred and which were confirmed by the Local Government day of in the year one thousand shall be repealed. If this clause is not included in the series submitted to the Local Government Board for approval, it should be stated whether or not there are any byelaws in force upon the subject, I am directed by the Local Government Board to draw attention to section 3 of the Canal Boats Act, 1884, which provides that every sanitary authority within whose district any canal or part of a canal is situate, shall make an annual report to the Board as to the execution of the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884, and of the regulations made thereunder, and as to the steps taken by such authority during the year to give effect to the provisions of the said Acts and Regulations. This section also prescribes 21 days after the 31st day of December in each year as the period within which such annual report shall be made; and the Board rely upon receiving within that period the report of the authority with respect to any canal within their jurisdiction. It appears to the Board to be desirable that the report should include information, inter alia, as to (1) The arrangements made for the inspection of boats and the (2) The number of boats inspected in 1904, and the condition (3) Any infringement of the Acts and Regulations with respect (4) Legal proceedings taken in respect of any such infringements, (5) Any other steps taken to secure compliance with the Acts (6) Cases of infectious disease dealt with, and measures of isolation adopted: (7) Detention of boats for cleansing and disinfection: and, in the case of Registration Authorities, (8) The number of boats on the register: Circular, 21st Dec., 1905. (9) The number registered in 1905, distinguishing the cases in which fresh registration has been rendered necessary by structural alterations in boats previously registered. I am directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to acquaint you that, in view of the risk of the communication of the disease of anthrax to man from the carcase of an infected animal, they have prepared the enclosed Notice with the object of warning persons engaged in slaughtering animals, or in dressing or otherwise handling the carcases of animals, against the danger to human life which may be incurred through contact with an infected carcase. The Board, who have been in communication on the subject with the Local Government Boards for England and Scotland, are anxious to secure the wide distribution of the Notice to those immediately concerned, and they would be obliged if you would be so good as to arrange to furnish copies of the Notice to all persons who hold licences from you for slaughterhouses or knackers' yards. Twelve copies are sent herewith for the purpose, and the Board will be happy to send you a further supply for issue in respect of either present or future licensees, on hearing from you at any time what number you require. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, ANTHRAX. Notice to Butchers, Slaughterers, Knackers and other persons engaged in Great Britain in slaughtering animals or in dressing or otherwise handling carcases of animals. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, A422 Α 4, Whitehall Place, Cases come under the notice of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from time to time of persons having contracted anthrax whilst engaged in slaughtering animals, or in dressing or otherwise handling the carcases of animals. In connection with inquiries made under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903, into outbreaks of anthrax, it appears from the reports of the Board's inspectors as regards the outbreaks which occurred in Great Britain during the period from the beginning of July to the end of December of last year, that as many as twelve persons are known to have contracted the disease whilst so employed, and that six of these persons died, whilst in one case amputation of the arm became necessary. The Board therefore think it desirable to warn persons against shedding the blood of an animal which appears to be ill from some unknown cause, and also against cutting or handling the carcase or skin of any animal which has died suddenly, until careful inquiries have been made with a view to see whether or not any symptoms of anthrax had been exhibited during life. Should there appear to be any reason to suspect the presence of anthrax it is very desirable that the slaughter of the animal or the dressing of the carcase should not be commenced until steps have been taken to investigate the cause of illness or death, and that the owner should be warned of the grave risk to human life which might without such investigation be incurred. If the course above indicated be followed in suspicious or doubtful instances, material assistance would thus be rendered to the respective authorities concerned in dealing with this very dangerous disease in man and in animals. T. H. ELLIOTT, Secretary, The symptoms of anthrax may be summarised as follows:-The disease shows itself suddenly. It is very fatal, usually within 48 hours. It does not often in the United Kingdom spread with rapidity from animal to animal, but it may affect a number of swine at the same time if they have been fed on anthrax flesh or organs. A beast which a short time before appeared to be well is found dead or in a dying condition. Frequently blood oozes from the nostrils and the anus. In cattle there are no typical symptoms, but in horses and pigs the region of the throat is often found to be swollen. After death the carcase is swollen. Blood is found around the nostrils and anus. The muscles are often infiltrated with blood at certain points The lungs and glands are congested. The spleen is very much enlarged; it is softer and darker ihan normal, and its substance usually resembles tar. R Order, 5th April, 1906. DISEASES OF ANIMALS (DISINFECTION) 7,047. The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, by virtue of and in exercise of the powers vested in them under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: Disinfection prescribed in specified cases. 1. The mode of disinfection to be adopted in the case of any place or thing or part of a place or thing required to be disinfected under the provisions specified in the fourth column of the Schedule to this Order, shall in lieu of that prescribed by such provisions be as follows: The place or thing, or the part thereof required to be disinfected 'shall be thoroughly coated or washed with (a) a one per cent. (minimum) solution of chloride of lime containing not less than thirty per cent. of available chlorine; or (b) a five per cent. (minimum) solution of carbolic acid (containing not less than ninety-five per cent. of actual carbolic acid), followed by a thorough sprinkling with limewash; or (c) a disinfectant equal in disinfective efficiency to the abovementioned solution of carbolic acid, followed by a thorough sprinkling with limewash. Alternative modes of disinfection authorised generally. 2. Where under any Order of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, other than those named in the Schedule to this Order, disinfection with limewash or a solution of carbolic acid and limewash is prescribed, it shall be lawful to use as an alternative mode of disinfection any mode authorised by the preceding Article. Short Title. 8. This Order may be cited as the DISEASES OF ANIMALS (DISINFECTION) ORDER OF 1906. In witness whereof the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have hereunto set their official seal this fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and six. [1..S.] T. H. ELLIOTT, Secretary. |