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Notice to Stock Owners, 



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and they have at their disposal means of rapid and effective 

 administrative action. As a result of enquiries made by their 

 inspectors, they are often enabled to bring to the knowledge 

 •of another Local Authority the existence of an entirely un- 

 known centre of disease in the district of that Authority, and 

 thereby to assist in the detection and elimination of disease. 



The condition of affairs as regards the various contagious 

 diseases dealt with in this Report enforces, it is stated, the 

 conclusion to which the Board had previously arrived — namely, 

 that it is desirable that they should be in a position to supervise 

 imore closely than has hitherto been possible, the local ad- 

 ministration as regards all the diseases in animals through the 

 agency of their own staff of inspectors, whose experience and 

 advice would be at the disposal of Local Authorities, and who 

 in many instances would be in a position to take a more general 

 view of the aspects of particular outbreaks as affecting other 

 localities. 



The Report contains a detailed account of the steps taken 

 during the year in regard to swine fever, and the distribution 

 of this disease in the various counties in Great Britain during 

 1901, 1902, and 1903, is depicted on three coloured maps. The 

 position in regard to sheep scab is similarly illustrated, and 

 detailed tables are given showing the quarterly number of 

 •outbreaks of both these diseases in each county of Great Britain 

 in 1902 and 1903. 



The statistical tables which are included in the volume relate 

 to the number of animals in Great Britain and the number 

 imported, and to the imports and exports of cattle, sheep, and 

 swine of the principal countries of the world. 



The Board have issued the following notice to stock owners 

 indicating the general symptoms of anthrax and the measures 

 which should be taken to prevent the spill- 

 Notice to Stock j n CT of the blood of the diseased or suspected 

 Owners in regard . , , , , s . c „ 



to Anthrax animal and the consequent risk of the 



spread of infection : — 

 Every person having or having had in his possession or 



