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GLANDERS.— CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) 
ACT, 1869. 
The following circular has just been issued by the local 
authority of the metropolis : 
The Metropolitan Board of Works being the local authority 
for the metropolis under the above Act, having regard to the 
Statute and to the Order of the Privy Council, requiring 
that every horse or animal having died or been slaughtered 
as in the Act mentioned, shall be dealt with as follows, viz., 
the carcase being disinfected, and removed in charge of an 
officer of the local authority to a horse slaughterer’s or 
knacker’s yard, licensed for the purpose by the Privy Council, 
and being there destroyed by exposure to a high temperature 
or by chemical agents ; and also having regard to the Order 
dated the 15th March, 1870, do hereby give notice that 
horses or animals that have died of glanders or have been 
slaughtered, must be removed in charge of an officer of the 
said Board to one or other of the following horse slaughterer’s 
whose premises have been duly licensed for that purpose, 
viz. — 
Messrs. Harrison & Company, Maiden Lane, Belle Isle ; 
Mr. G. E. Stronach, Brandon Road, Belle Isle ; 
Mr. William Barber, Little North Street, Whitechapel ; 
Messrs. Whinkley & Shaw, No. 35, Green Street, Black- 
friars Road ; 
Mr. Edward Wallis, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth. 
And having regard to Section 10 of the Order of the 10th 
August, 1869, directing that every person having in his 
possession or under his charge an animal (including a horse) 
affected with a contagious or infectious disease, shall as far as 
practicable keep such animal separate from animals not so af- 
fected — and shall with all practicable speed give notice to a 
police constable of the fact of the animal being so affected. 
The Metropolitan Board hereby caution all persons having 
glandered animals in their possession that unless they give 
the notice above directed, they will render themselves liable 
to a penalty of £20, and that all persons dealing with or 
disposing of any glandered animal otherwise than in con- 
formity with the above-mentioned Act and Orders, will subject 
themselves to the penalties imposed thereby. 
And the Board also warn all parties to give immediate 
notice of the outbreak of any disease, so that the requisite 
