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been carried out according to law. The termination of the disease 

 is to be made known to the public in the appropriate organs." 



Contagious Pleuro-pneumonia of Cattle. 



" The investigations of the official veterinarian with reference to 

 an outbreak of this disease must take place (as a rule) in the pres- 

 ence of the head man of the locality, or of an officer detailed by the 

 local police for that purpose. 



" If the existence of the disease is proven, or if strong suspi- 

 cions of the same exist, it is the duty of the veterinarian to as- 

 certain how long the suspicious phenomena have been noticed, if 

 the diseased or suspected animal has been in relation with other 

 cattle, if animals have been recently slaughtered from the same sta- 

 ble or farm, or removed, when and where the suspected animal was 

 bought, and who the former owner was. The results of this ex- 

 amination are to be at once communicated to the police and the local 

 officers, in order that they may put the necessary laws in execution. 

 If the corresponding police regulations have not been ordered, and 

 the police representative was not present at the examination, it is 

 the duty of the official veterinarian to at once order a preliminary 

 separation and isolation of the diseased and suspected animals. It is 

 also the duty of the veterinarian to notify the owner or his represent- 

 ative in writing of these regulations. In necessary cases the official 

 veterinarian can require the presence of the head man of the town." 



The Regulations in Case of Suspicion. — " The cattle of a farm 

 (or locality) which has been heretofore free from the disease are sub- 

 ject to the police observation when it has been confirmed; that, 

 among the cattle, individuals are found which have been in re- 

 lations with animals having this disease within the last eight weeks ; 

 when the cattle in which the disease was suspected, before the 

 official examination, have been slaughtered, removed, or otherwise 

 done away with. The police have to make a memorandum of 

 the number and characteristics (marks) of the animals in the sus- 

 pected locality, and to make such regulations that the owner or 

 his representative can not remove any cattle without the permission 

 of the police. It is the duty of the police to see that these regu- 

 lations are executed. 



" After the lapse of four weeks, the police must order the offi- 

 cial veterinarian to make a second supervision of the cattle in the 

 suspected locality. 



" If the official veterinarian can not at the time positively assert 

 that the disease exists among the animals, but if the examination 



