232 Circular Letter as to Tuberculosis, [june, 



, Where a Local Authority have consented to pay compensation for 

 the destruction of bushes, they may require the occupier of infected 

 premises to destroy by burning or other effective method all or any of 

 the bushes on the premises. 



All clippings arising from any pruning are to be destroyed on the 

 infected premises by the occupier by burning or other effective method. 



The next Section gives power to the Local Authority to require the 

 adoption of precautions on premises in the vicinity of infected premises. 



Section 8 provides that the Local Authority may prohibit the picking 

 of fruit in diseased gardens except under such conditions as may be 

 necessary, and Section 9 deals with the prevention of the spread of 

 infection by the movement of bushes. 



Prohibition of Importation of Bushes. — Section 13 prohibits the land- 

 ing in Great Britain of any bush brought from any place out of Great 

 Britain (except the Channel Islands), but this does not apply to the 

 landing of any currant bush under the authority of a licence previously 

 obtained from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



Other sections of the Order refer to the imposition of penalties, 

 powers of the Board, &c. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have issued the following 

 circular letter, dated May 27th, 1909, to Local Authorities in Great 

 Britain under the Disease of Animals Acts, 

 Circular Letter as to l8 94 to 1903 :— 

 Tuberculosis. Sir,— 



1. I am directed by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Fisheries to send to you for submission to your Local Authority 

 the enclosed copy of the Tuberculosis Order of 1909, which will come 

 into operation on the 1st of January, 1910. 



2. As your Local Authority are doubtless aware, the subject of 

 tuberculosis in man and in animals, and the relations between the 

 disease in human beings and in animals, has been under careful 

 investigation during recent years both in this country and abroad, and 

 various phases of the question have been inquired into by successive 

 Royal Commissions. So far as regards the possibility of the transmission 

 of the disease from affected bovine animals to man, the Board are 

 satisfied that it must now be accepted as a fact that tuberculosis is 

 transmissible by the agency of milk used for human consumption. 

 The Local Government Board concur in this view, and a Bill was 

 introduced in the House of Commons by the President of the Local 

 Government Board on the 25th instant, designed, inter alia, to afford 

 protection to the public health from the risk of the spread of tuber- 

 culosis by the means of milk used for human consumption. 



3. It appeared to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desirable 

 that their Order should be made and issued at the earliest possible 

 moment in order that the proposals of the Government as a whole with 

 regard to tuberculosis might be placed before Parliament. The Board 

 intend at a later stage to address a further letter to your Local Authority 

 dealing more particularly with points of administrative detail connected 

 with their Order. For the moment, therefore, they propose to refer 

 only to the broader aspects of the subject. 



