GLANDERS. 



In addition to the order of the Commissioners of the District of 

 Columbia, by which the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry was 

 made District veterinarian for the purpose of discovering and erad- 

 icating pleuro -pneumonia, a subsequent order has been issued which 

 gives him authority to investigate as to the existence of glanders 

 and to kill affected animals without compensation to the owner. The 

 full text of this order is as follows: 



OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 



Washington, August 21, 1888. 



Regulation for the suppression and prevention of contagious, infectious, and com- 

 municable diseases affecting domestic animals in the District of Columbia. 



Whereas the eighth section of the act of Congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled 

 " An act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the ex- 

 portation of diseased cattle, and to provide the means for the suppression and ex- 

 tirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic ani- 

 mals," authorizes and requires the Commissioners to take measures for the prompt 

 suppression of all contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases affecting do- 

 mestic animals in the District of Columbia, to prescribe regulations for disinfection, 

 and such other regulations as they may deem necessary to prevent infection and 

 contagion, as provided in said section, do ordain, declare, and publish the following: 



Ordered, That all persons having the care or custody of any domestic animal in 

 the District of Columbia affected or supposed to be affected with any infectious, 

 contagious, or communicable disease shall isolate and forthwith report the same to 

 the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, or 

 to some officer of said Bureau in said District, designating the place where the same 

 may be found, and shall place the same at his disposal, and observe and follow such 

 directions as such chief or officer shall prescribe in such case. 



2. That it is hereby made the duty of all veterinary surgeons in said District, and 

 sanitary inspectors of the health department of the District, and of every member 

 of the metropolitan police force to inquire and report upon all known or suspected 

 cases referred to in section one of this order. 



3. That if any person or persons having the care or custody of any domestic ani- 

 mal in said District affected or supposed to be affected as aforesaid, shall secrete or 

 conceal the same, or use any device to conceal the same or mislead the persons or 

 officers who are charged with any duty in reference to such domestic animals, and 

 all persons aiding therein, shall each suffer the penalty hereinafter prescribed. 



4. That the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry only may cause the death of 

 any so diseased or supposed to be diseased animal in said District upon orders oral 

 or written from him for the death of such animal, and shall also prescribe the mode 

 and place of death, which shall be strictly pursued in the destruction of said animal; 

 and the bodies of such animals so killed shall be removed by the health officer of 

 the District upon notice from said Chief 



5. That every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this regulation 

 shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars for 

 each offense, to be enforced in the police court of the District of Columbia, in the 

 name of the District, on information. &c. 



Official copy furnished the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department 

 of Agriculture. 

 By order: 



W. TTNDALL, Secretary. 



The investigations so far made show the prevalence of this malady 

 to a considerable extent among the horses in the District. From 



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