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FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
Council Chamber, Whitehall, Oct. 1st, 1870. 
The following Order of Council has been issued with a 
view to arrest the progress of the disease : — 
“ The Lords and others of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable 
Privy Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in 
them vested under The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 
1869, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, 
do order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows : — 
“ 1. This Order shall take effect from and immediately 
after the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy, and words in this Order have the same 
meaning as in The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 
1869. 
“ 2 . A Local Authority may, from time to time, with the 
view of preventing the spreading of foot-and-mouth disease, 
make regulations for the following purposes, or any of 
them : — 
“ For prohibiting or regulating the movement out of any 
field, stable, cowshed, or other premises in which that 
disease has been found to exist, of any animal that has 
been in the same field, stable, cowshed, or other premi- 
ses with or in contact with any animal affected with 
that disease : 
“ For cleansing and disinfecting sheds and places used by 
animals affected with that disease. 
“ Provided that such Local Authority may, from time to 
time, revoke any such regulation : and Provided that the 
Privy Council, if satisfied on inquiry, with respect to any 
regulation made under this Order, that the same is of too 
restrictive a character, or otherwise objectionable, may direct 
the revocation thereof, and thereupon, as from the time spe- 
cified in that behalf by the Privy Council, the same shall 
cease to operate.” 
“ (Signed) ARTHUR HELPS.” 
Compared with last month very little alteration has taken 
place in the number of counties in which the foot and mouth 
disease prevails ; and although the centres of infection have 
decreased in some of them, a great increase has taken place in 
others. This is especially the case in Somersetshire, which 
now heads the list, with upwards of 1500 centres of infection. 
The returns also from Cumberland, Dorset, Hants, Wilts, 
and Yorkshire, are still very heavy. 
