60 CATTLE DISEASES 



At a later stage the London Bill was allowed to go through 

 with one modification, which provided that instead of milk 

 from a whole dairy being stopped when Tuberculosis of the 

 Udder was suspected, the milk from the suspected cow only 

 should be stopped. 



A private member's Bill, called the Public Health Bill, 

 was introduced by Mr. J. W. Wilson, containing various 

 clauses which had been previously accepted by Parliament 

 in a number of private Acts. The object of the Bill was to 

 enable urban authorities to adopt its provisions, or any 

 portion of them, and it empowered the Local Government 

 Board to extend them to rural districts. Adoption of any 

 part of the Act was by simple resolution passed at a meeting 

 of the local authority, and publication of the resolution in 

 one or two local papers. As the Bill contained, inter alia, 

 the Model Milk Clauses, the Parliamentary Committee were 

 instructed to oppose it, for two reasons. First, because this 

 method of obtaining these Clauses would not be consistent 

 with the repeated demands of the Council for general and 

 comprehensive legislation, and because if this piecemeal 

 legislation were to be continued it was deemed better that 

 it should be obtained in the ordinary way, by private Act, 

 rather than by this less public method. Secondly, although 

 the Model Clauses were accepted by the Council as a com- 

 promise and as a temporary measure, the Council could not 

 accept them as representing the general legislation which 

 they had demanded. The Bill was befriended by the Govern- 

 ment and allowed to slip through after eleven o'clock one 

 night, but the Milk Clauses were struck out before it became 



an Act. 



1908. 



At the June meeting the resignation of Mr. St. John 

 Ackers, as Chairman of the Cattle Diseases Committee, was 

 accepted with great regret, and Colonel Le Roy-Lewis was 

 elected in his place. Mr. Ackers had been Chairman since 

 the resignation of Mr. Stratton in 1894. 



At the end of 1907 the Council had addressed a letter to 

 the Board calling attention t the great danger of allowing 



