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months should elapse after a country had been declared free 

 of disease before its cattle were accepted as free from infection. 

 The Council endorsed this view of the Committee with only 

 one dissentient. 



The Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act was passed this 

 year. As a Bill it was considered by the Council in June, 

 when the proposal requiring vendors of milk to furnish a 

 list of their customers was objected to as being too inquisitorial. 

 They also protested against the inspection of animals in a 

 dairy herd by a medical officer unless he was accompanied 

 by a veterinary surgeon. The Bill was amended in the 

 direction indicated by these two suggestions before it passed, 

 and no other point was specially noticed ; though Mr. J. 

 Treadwell, of Bucks, expressed the opinion that " the intro- 

 duction of the Bill was a step taken without sufficient thought." 

 If the Council had given a little more thought to the Bill at 

 that stage and proposed further amendments much of the 

 subsequent? work of the Chambers in connection with Milk 

 Legislation would not have been required. 



1891. 



The Chamber asked for legislation to regulate the Trans - 

 Atlantic Cattle Trade on the lines recommended by the 

 Departmental Committee with a view to preventing some of 

 the animal suffering which long ocean voyages entailed. The 

 Board of Agriculture introduced a Bill to carry out this object, 

 but it met with so much opposition from the shipowning 

 interest that it was withdrawn. The Board, however, issued 

 an Order under the powers conferred by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture Act which laid down regulations for the more humane 

 conduct of this traffic. 



1892. 



Foot and Mouth Disease was imported from Denmark in 

 February, and at their March meeting the Council called on 

 the Board of Agriculture to take such action as would avert 

 a recurrence of the danger, citing this case as a further proof 

 that the importation of live stock could only be carried on at 



