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was represented on the Organising Council of the Congress 

 by Mr. B. St. J. Ackers, while the Chairman, Vice-Chairmaii 

 and Secretary of the Central Chamber, and the Chairman of 

 the Parliamentary Committee were appointed as official 

 delegates to the Congress. The proceedings were rendered 

 remarkable by the statement of Dr. Koch, of Berlin, to the 

 -effect that bovine tuberculosis was not communicable to 

 human beings. This reopened a question which had been 

 regarded as settled, and so on 31st August the Government 

 appointed another Royal Commission to inquire into the 

 subject. The Veterinary Section of the Congress adopted a 

 series of resolutions as to tuberculous meat and milk, moved 

 by Mr. Bo wen- Jones. These resolutions were embodied in a 

 report of the Cattle Diseases Committee adopted by the 

 Council on 5th November, when general agreement with the 

 resolutions was expressed, and the Council considered that 

 legislation giving effect to the principles set forth should 

 be undertaken at the earliest practicable opportunity. 



In the session of 1901 some twenty-one local Acts were 

 passed containing the Model Milk Clauses. In connection 

 with the Brighton Act a new clause entitling the dairyman 

 to compensation from the Corporation, if not himself in 

 default, was agreed to, and this new Clause was added to 

 the lk Model " Clauses, and inserted in all the Acts containing 

 Milk Clauses which were passed this session. The new Clause 

 was also inserted in the Acts of some of the other Corpora- 

 tions which had obtained the Model Clauses in 1900, and 

 which were promoting further Bills in 1901. There were, 

 however, only a few of these, and so there were three groups 

 of Acts differing in points of great importance passed in these 

 three years. The variation in the Leeds Act of 1899 was 

 removed and their Act of 1901 brought it into conformity 

 with the others of this year. 



On llth December the Council unanimously passed a 

 resolution urging the necessity of the police in different 

 counties being placed in a position to give proper information 

 as to regulations for moving animals from one county to 

 another. 



