Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878

The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 74) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative government.

A select committee was appointed in 1877 to investigate animal diseases. The resulting Act established central rather than local control over all outbreaks of animal disease.[1]

The agriculturist Jacob Wilson considered the Act "an undoubted benefit conferred upon the agricultural interest by the Conservative Government".[2]:12 It was opposed by the Radicals.[2]:13

References
  1. Six years of Conservative Government, 1874-79 (London: National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, 1880), p. 25.
  2. Jacob Wilson, Who Are the Friends of the Farmers?

Further reading
  • Jonathan Spain, 'Free trade, protectionism and the 'food of the people': the Liberal opposition to the Cattle Diseases Bill of 1878', in Eugenio F. Biagini (ed.), Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 168-192.
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