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had been in contact with the diseased were reported to the IVIaires 

 of the places to which they were scut. When aphthous fever 

 became epizootic all public fairs and markets in the affected dis- 

 tricts were ordered closed. The affected and quarantined tnighl 

 be killed at the request of the owner. 



The order of 1891 allows animals to be moved out of a quaran- 

 tined area for slaughter, vet enjoins disinfection of the markel 

 after each day of sale. Unless visibly diseased, cattle, etc., were 

 admitted to other markets though they were just from La Villette, 

 the great Paris market, which was conceded to be constantly 

 infected. 



The orders of 1004 became more specific, not only closing fairs 

 and markets, but forbidding sales in the public highways, in the 

 courts of inns and other exposed places. They allow infected 

 animals to be carried in vehicles, with their feet bandaged, to 

 abattoirs, outside the quarantined area in charge of a veterinary 

 inspector. They also allow dealers to collect animals on their 

 premises, under the precautions that each transaction must be 

 reported to the Maire within 12 hours and that no such animal 

 shall be moved until 5 days have elapsed, and then only on the 

 certificate of a sanitary veterinarian that it is quite free from 

 aphthous fever. It is needless to go farther. to show how utterly 

 inadequate such restrictions must be in making an end of foot and 

 mouth disease. 



In Great Britain the lack of an intelligent and uniform system 

 for a length of time rendered matters still worse. At the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Veterinarians at Baden Baden (1899), Cope 

 named the remarkable occurrence of "the sudden appearance of 

 the disease in Edinburgh which is 400 miles distant from London, 

 there being no center of infection between London and that citv. 

 Every effort to trace how the virus of the disease was carried 

 failed entirely, but the discovery of the fad that foot and mouth 

 disease w;is capable of being conveyed for so great a distance by 

 mediate contagion was one of the causes which led the Board of 

 Agriculture to decide that the time had arrived for prohibiting 

 the landing of animals from the whole of Europe." 



A nearly parallel case occurred in 1865 when the newly imported 

 rinderpest appeared in the Metropolitan market, London, one day, 

 ami in the Edinburgh cattle market the day following. In that 



