[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prescribed period of six clear days following their arrival in accord¬ ance with the Order. As compared with the previous year, the number of imported cattle increased by 720. The Diseases of Animals (Waste Foods) Order, 1957.—During the year 13 new applications were received for licences to operate waste food boding plants under the above-mentioned Order. There were 99 licensed boiling plants in the city at the end of the year. Visits to boiling plants during the year numbered 140. Legal Proceedings.—A farmer and a livestock waggon driver in his employ were prosecuted for moving animals through a Foot- and-Mouth Disease Infected Area without a licence at a time when the city was under restrictions consequent upon an outbreak of the disease at Newsam Green. The defendants were found guilty and given an absolute discharge and ordered to pay 4s. costs in each case.