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of tuberculosis, for example, in regard to which it had taken about
four years for Local Governments to draft rules for the prohibition
of importation of tuberculous cattle. A concrete example of an
important disease which would undoubtedly be scheduled under
an act of this kind was anthrax, which he had discussed at length
when that subject was before the conference. It would be a great
advantage to the veterinary services and the administrative autho-
rities to have all central legislation concerning animal diseases
amalgamated in a single comprehensive measure.

    Mr. Hewlett agreed with the last speaker, for although with the
machinery available for carrying out sanitary police measures it
would be impossible to achieve very much at present, yet a begin-
ning must be made. He had pointed out in connection with rinder-
pest control that owing to the lack of means of enforcing any method
of control at the present time no headway could be made. He
insisted that the act should be permissive and the rules pro-
vincial.

    Mr. Edwards pointed out that it was most important that such
rules should be carefully framed by members of the profession
who were well versed in the special problems of epizootiology and
sanitary police. It might well happen that if Local Governments
were left alone to draft regulations, they might be advised by a
recently recruited officer who did not have much experience in this
class of work and who was not aware of the technicalities of the
relevant problem. He therefore impressed upon the conference
that any regulations drafted should be carefully considered by a
small committee of members who were best acquainted with these
problems, so that the policy might be as far as possible uniform
throughout the country; likewise, the hands of individual
members representing the department in the provinces would be
strengthened in renderng advice to their Governments if this advice
had the support of an authoritative body that represented the
several provinces and had taken pains to collect the best technical
information available on the problem at issue.

    In the course of a discussion with Mr. Hewlett, the Chairman
pointed out that the control of epizootic diseases could not be
regarded as a political question, for it was an imminent one in every
part of the country and respected no political barriers.

    Mr. Ware pointed out that in Madras this form of legislation
seemed to have been adopted many years ago, in the form of the
Madras Cattle Diseases Act, 1866, and he could not see why. a similar
act had not been introduced elsewhere. Under this act it was
made compulsory on the owner to notify any contagious disease
among cattle.