Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act

The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act is a series of Acts of Parliament of the UK to deal with the possibility of the accrual of economic harm or intra-species contamination.[1][2] In 1892, the local authorities were not making sufficient use of powers to combat animal diseases so the Act introduced central control over the slaughter of infected animals and the payment of compensation.[2] The 1893 Act transferred from local authorities to the Board of Agriculture the responsibility for wiping out swine fever. It was followed by the 20th-century series notation Diseases of Animals Act. Rabid dogs were included in 1878.[3]

Not to be confused with Contagious Diseases Acts.

References
  1. Spain, Jonathan (1996). Eugenio F. Biagini (ed.). "Free trade, protectionism and the 'food of the people': the Liberal opposition to the Cattle Diseases Bill of 1878". Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 168–192.
  2. Brown, F (December 22, 1986). "Review Lecture: Foot-And-Mouth Disease -- One of the Remaining Great Plagues". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 229 (1256): 217.
  3. Lupton, Frederick (1888). "The Law Relating to Dogs". London: Stevens and Sons – via Google Books.
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