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COMMITTEE ON CATTLE DISEASES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Terms of reference and composition of the committee
On the 2nd November, 1932, the Prime Minister appointed a committee of the Economic Advisory Council with the following terms of reference—
To consider what practical measures can be taken to secure a reduction of disease among milch cattle in this country, and to report upon any changes desirable in the existing administrative practice, and, in particular, upon the value and practicability of methods for reducing the incidence of bovine tuberculosis and improving the milk supply.
2. The committee is constituted as follows:-
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pres.R.S., Chairman.
Sir Merrik R. Burrell, Bt., C.B.E.
Professor E. P. Cathcart, C.B.E., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. Dr. A. Stanley Griffith, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.H,
Sir Charles Harris, G.B.E., K.C.B.
Professor J. H. Jones.
Major-General Sir John Moore, K.C.M.G., C.B., F.R.C.V.S.
Mr. Francis Hemming, C.B.E., Jointy
Secretary,
Economic
Advisory Joint secretaries
Council
to the
Mr. P. K. Debenham,
Assistant,
Economic Advisory Council
committee.
Introductory--
(a) Procedure adopted by the committee
(b) Evidence received...
(c) Arrangement of report
(d) Recent government policy and the committee's inquiry
PART 1.
THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MILK AND THEIR RELATION TO CATTLE DISEASES AND PUBLIC
HEALTH.
1. The present system of milk production and supply-
(a) Milk production-
(i) The dairying industry
(ii) The wastage of dairy cattle
(iii) Influences affecting the spread of disease (iv) The movements of cattle in Great Britain
(b) Methods of milk distribution
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II. Cattle diseases and the diseases in man associated with them-
(a) Cattle diseases-
(1) Bovine tuberculosis
(ii) Contagious abortion
(iii) Johne's disease
(iv) Mastitis
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(b) Diseases in man associated with cattle diseases
(1) Tuberculosis
(ii) Undulant fever
(iii) Milk-borne epidemics...
(c) Milk in human diet
(d) The effect of pasteurisation on the constituents of milk
(e) The extent to which a supplementary diet is fed to
children whose main diet is milk
III. Administrative measures in force
(a) Existing legislation in regard to diseases of animals
(i) The tuberculosis order of 1925 ... (ii) The epizootic abortion order of 1922 and previous
orders
(i) The general effect of existing legislation
(ii) The grading of milk
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(b) Existing legislation relating to the milk supply—
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(c) The effectiveness of current legislation in the prevention of disease and the improvement of the milk supply... (d) Milk legislation in countries overseas
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