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fected stables can not be removed. Shepherds and other persons 

 who have been in relation with the diseased sheep can not be em- 

 ployed in the care of those of other owners, or other sheep which 

 are not diseased. They can only leave the place after careful wash- 

 ing and change of clothing. Strangers and butchers must not be 

 admitted to the infected stables. Common washing-places can not 

 be used for the diseased sheep. Diseased sheep can only be washed 

 by persons who are to be forbidden coming in relation with other 

 sheep within the succeeding ten days. The wool from such sheep 

 can only be removed from the place when closely packed, and then 

 only with the permission of the police. 



" Sheep are to be placed under police observation in those cases 

 where an outbreak of the disease can not be securely determined, 

 but when the official veterinarian declares the case to be decidedly 

 suspicious. This observation is to be given up when, after the lapse 

 of fourteen days, the official veterinarian declares that no suspicious 

 phenomena have been seen in the sheep. 



"When the situation of the individual outbreak is such that a 

 complete isolation of the diseased sheep is pronounced impossible 

 for any length of time, or when the general interest demands the 

 speediest possible termination of the outbreak, it becomes the duty 

 of the police to occasion the speediest possible inoculation of all the 

 sheep in the district. The police must strictly attend to the neces- 

 sary restrictions. Such inoculations can only take place under the 

 supervision of an official veterinarian. 



"When the disease breaks out in flocks in transit, they are 

 to be at once subjected to quarantine. No inoculation of sheep 

 by owners can take place without the consent of the police. The 

 notification of such intention must be handed in at least eight 

 days before the inoculation is to take place. The district police 

 must at once notify the public that such inoculation is to take place, 

 and, so far as the district is not under their control, they must notify 

 the neighboring police of the fact. The above-given regulations are 

 then to be applied to the inoculated sheep in the same manner as if 

 the disease had broken out in a natural way. 



" The slaughtering of such diseased sheep for human consump- 

 tion is forbidden. 



" The cadavers of sheep which have died, or been killed, on ac- 

 count of variola, must be chemically destroyed, or, where this is 

 impossible, buried. The burial-places must be so deep that at least 

 four feet of earth lies upon the bodies. Such sheep may be 

 skinned, but the skins can not be removed except with the permis- 



