350 PRUSSIAN REGULATIONS FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



" In those cases where a difference of opinion as to the nature 

 of the disease in question exists between the veterinarian of the 

 police and that of the owner, the police may call in the services of 

 a department veterinarian, who must make his report in writing ; 

 the opinion of the latter is decisive, and the police must proceed ac- 

 cordingly. 



" Official veterinarians have to supervise all cattle and horse 

 markets, or all gatherings where animals are brought for the pur- 

 pose of sale or barter. 



" The district veterinary authorities are authorized to extend the 

 same regulations to cattle, horse, or animal fairs or exhibitions." 



It is the duty of the veterinarian to at once notify the police, in 

 all cases, of the presence or suspicion of infectious or contagious dis- 

 eases among animals so collected, which is to be followed by order- 

 ing into action the appropriate regulations. If there is danger in 

 delay, the veterinarian is authorized to anticipate the action of the 

 police by isolating and guarding the diseased or suspected animals. 

 The expenses of the supervision of cattle and horse markets or fairs 

 by the official veterinarian must be borne by the directors of the 

 same. 



Restriction of the Travel or Use of Animals. 



" The isolation, guarding, or police supervision of an animal, or 

 animals, affected with a contagious disease, or in which such is sus- 

 pected. The owner of such an animal is obliged (upon demand) 

 to make such arrangements that it can not leave its confinement 

 while under observation, and that it is kept free from all contact 

 with other animals. 



" Restrictions as to use, or the transport of diseased or suspected 

 animals, or the products from the same, or of such objects as have 

 been in relation with the diseased or suspected animals, which may 

 give rise to the extension of the disease. 



" The use of common grazing-grounds is to be forbidden ani- 

 mals from different stables ; further, the use of common drinking- 

 places, and all intercourse between diseased or suspected animals in 

 any way. 



" Dogs are forbidden to run about free. 



"When the official veterinarian has proven the presence of 

 a contagious disease, the stables, farms, villages, or localities in 

 which said animals are kept may be, according to circumstances, 

 subjected to quarantine, so that no connection may be had with 

 them, or with objects which could serve as vehicles of the infec- 

 tious elements. The quarantine can only extend to a town, or vil- 



