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same meeting the proposal of the Home-office to add Cow Pox 

 to the Schedule of Industrial Diseases under the Factory and 

 Workshops Acts, 1901-1907, was considered, and the Council 

 offered no objection to the proposal. They deputed Professor 

 Penberthy to give evidence on their behalf before the Depart- 

 mental Committee which the Home-office had appointed to 

 inquire into the subject. 



The eighty-three outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease in 

 England this year caused great alarm, and, coming as they 

 did just when the animals were assembling for the Royal 

 Show at Doncaster, caused great loss and widespread incon- 

 venience. A general Order was issued by the Board pro- 

 hibiting the exhibition of all stock except horses at the Royal 

 Show, and large areas were placed under Orders prohibiting 

 movement of animals wherever the disease showed itself. It 

 was found that the original cause was stock imported from 

 Ireland, and all animals from Ireland were debarred entry 

 for some months. Yielding to Irish pressure, however, Mr. 

 Runciman issued an Order permitting the landing of stock 

 from Ireland on 30th September, on which day a further 

 outbreak of this disease occurred in Ireland. At the provincial 

 meeting of the Central Chamber at Chester on 3rd October 

 a resolution was passed expressing the opinion that this 

 admission of stock from Ireland was fraught with great 

 danger. On 9th October a large deputation, organised by the 

 Chamber and the Royal Agricultural Society, waited upon the 

 President of the Board to urge him to reconsider the matter 

 and to prohibit the landing of any stock from Ireland until 

 it was certain that it could be done without risk. Mr. Runci- 

 man refused to withdraw the Order, but within a few days 

 almost every County Council in England issued orders pro- 

 hibiting the entry of any stock from Ireland into their respec- 

 tive areas, and on 5th November the Council expressed their 

 approval of this action of the County Councils. 



1913. 



In March the Council gave general approval to the Tuber- 

 culosis Order, 1913, and expressed some degree of satisfaction 



