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ment of the Bombay Presidency, who referred the matter to the
Commerce Department of the Government of India. It was then
referred to the Revenue and Agriculture Department and after
examination of the conditions existing in India, the Secretary
drafted a Bill on the lines of the Glanders and Farcy Act for dealing
with the disease. The Bill was next forwarded to him (the speaker)
for technical opinion, and advice was submitted upon the peculiar
problems connected with the institution of proper measures of
anthrax control based upon the general experience of other countries
in this respect. In particular, the essential differences in the
nature of measures designed with the object of eradicating the
two diseases, glanders and anthrax, were pointed out, for in the
former the living, usually chronically, affected animal was the point
of attack, whereas in the latter disease the carcase of the dead
animal was mainly to be considered. It was explained that from
the general experience in regard to anthrax it would undoubtedly
be found that the disease had a much wider prevalence in India
than was evident from the statistics furnished in the reports of the
Civil Veterinary Department if a proper system of reporting deaths
from this disease were adopted. He related the experiences which
had been published in connection with the spread and prevalence
of the disease in Argentina and in South Africa, in particular, where
it had rapidly assumed the position of the most important infectious
disease of cattle in the country. He understood that the condi-
tions which had made for the widespread and even epizootic pre-
valence of the disease in these countries obtained to a marked
degree in numerous localities in India, and in view of this circum-
stance he had recommended the insertion of a clause which would
enable Local Governments to enforce vaccination in the scene
of considerable outbreaks. Unfortunately, the matter of legisla-
tion was now in abeyance, at the instigation of the Honourable
Member of the above department. Again, the speaker read
extracts from a lecture upon the subject of anthrax control given
recently by Major-General Sir John Moore, late Director of the
Army Veterinary Services in India, at a Meeting of the Royal
Society of Medicine in London. It would appear from this address
that the lecturer considered there was no excuse for delay in the
institution of legislative measures for the control of the disease
in India. While he (Sir John Moore) served at the headquarters
of the Government of India he had submitted a comprehensive
draft of such a measure for dealing with anthrax, together also
with detailed drafts of measures for controlling other infectious
diseases of animals, to the Government of India. Having in
mind the probable outcome of the deliberations of the Special
Anthrax Committee of the International Labour Organization of