1905.] 



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mitting these Orders to be laid before your Local Authority, 

 the Board desire to offer the following observations, as to the 

 administrative procedure necessary to ensure the success of 

 their proposals and as to the policy underlying their action, 

 which the Board trust will receive the careful consideration of 

 your Local Authority. 



Sheep Scab Order of 1905 (No. 6879). 



3. This Order does not differ in principle from the Sheep 

 Scab Order of the 13th September, 1898 (No. 5847), which is 

 revoked as from the date of operation of the new Order. 

 Increased powers are, however, placed in the hands of 

 Inspectors, both of the Board and of the Local Authority, as 

 regards the isolation, under Notice (Form C), of sheep which the 

 Inspector has reason to believe to have been in contact with 

 •sheep affected with Sheep Scab, and provision is made for the 

 prompt service by the Inspector of the Local Authority of the 

 Detention Notice (Form A.) as regards suspected sheep, pend- 

 ing the veterinary examination prescribed by Article 3 of the 

 Order. 



4. In this connection the Board trust that every Local 

 Authority in Great Britain will make arrangements, in con- 

 nection with each reported outbreak of Sheep Scab, for the 

 immediate attendance of a Veterinary Inspector of the Local 

 Authority, who, they think, should be instructed that his duty 

 should not be confined to the examination of those sheep only 

 in which disease has been reported as suspected, but should 

 •extend to the examination of any other sheep upon the holding, 

 or part of the holding, where the suspected animals are. On 

 the confirmation of the existence of disease by the Veterinary 

 Inspector the fact is to be notified to the Board by the Local 

 Authority. It is hardly open to question that in some districts 

 the number of Veterinary Inspectors employed by the Local 

 Authority is not sufficient to admit of the thorough investigation 

 of each outbreak in the manner above suggested, and where such 

 is the case the Board hope that steps will at once be taken by 

 the Local Authority concerned to remedy the matter by the 

 appointment of additional Veterinary Inspectors 



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