354 PRUSSIAN REGULATIONS FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



persons having the sick animals in charge do not leave the place 

 without first washing their hands, and changing the clothing and 

 shoes they have used about them. Dealers in animals and butchers 

 are forbidden to enter the infected grounds. 



" The grazing of the sick animals, or those in the stable with 

 them, is to be forbidden when the situation of the fields is such that 

 grazing them is connected with danger of the extension of the dis- 

 ease to other animals. The sick animals and those with them may 

 be confined to their stables by the police, when it is impossible for 

 the owner to comply with the restrictions necessary to the preven- 

 tion of the disease extending. 



" The sale of the milk in an uncooked condition for human con- 

 sumption is forbidden. 



" When the disease has acquired an enzootic extension, all animal 

 markets, except those for horses, are to be forbidden in the locality, 

 and, when the circumstances require it, in adjoining localities. In 

 such cases the police may forbid ruminants being driven through 

 the streets of the infected district. The removal of these animals 

 from them can only take place with the consent of the authorities. 

 This permission shall not be denied when the animals are from non- 

 infected stables, and are destined for immediate slaughter. In these 

 cases the removal of manure can only take place from the infected 

 stables under the control of the police. Signs bearing upon them 

 ' Foot-and-Mouth Disease' must be placed upon the roads approach- 

 ing the infected district. 



" When the disease appears among animals at grass, the police 

 must make such restrictions and post such guards that animals from 

 these herds can not be driven off or others upon the infected pas- 

 tures. When this is impossible, the diseased animals must be re- 

 moved to places where they can be properly confined, and the graz- 

 ing-places isolated or plowed up with horses. Such grazing-places 

 must be indicated with the previously mentioned inscriptions. 

 Strangers and cattle-dealers are to be kept distant from them. 



" When the disease appears among droves or animals in the way 

 of transport, it is the duty of the police to prevent the droves being 

 driven farther, and the animals quarantined. 



" It is the duty of the authorities to see that the infected stables 

 or fields are properly cleansed and disinfected when the disease has 

 been declared at an end. 



" The disease may be declared at an end when no new case 

 transpired within fourteen days from the healing, or removal of the 

 last case in the infected localities, and when the cleansing, etc., has 



