SANITARY LAW 407 



or part condemned, if any, after deducting the expenses of condemnation and 

 action: Provided that no carcase shall be submitted for examination, 

 riilu-r under this or the immediately preceding subsection, unless as a whole 

 carcase, including the thoracic and abdominal viscera, in such manner that the 

 examiner shall be readily able to satisfy himself that the organs are those of 

 the carcase under inspection. 



(4) Where it is shown that any animal or article liable to be seized under 

 this section and found in the possession of any person was purchased by him 

 or consigned to him from another person for the food of man, and when so 

 purchased or consigned was in such a condition as to be liable to be seized and 

 condemned under this section, the person who so sold or consigned the same shall 

 be liable to be brought to trial in the district in which such animal or article 

 was seized, and on conviction shall be liable to the penalty and imprisonment 

 above mentioned, unless he proves that, at the time he sold or consigned the 

 said animal or article, he and the person acting on his behalf, if any, did not know, 

 and could not with reasonable care have known, that it was in such a condition. 



(5) A copy of any certificate granted by a veterinary surgeon under sub- 

 sections 2 or 3 of this section, shall forthwith be sent by him to the chief constable 

 of the jurisdiction in which the examination of the animal or carcase took place, 

 and the certificate itself shall be sent by the person selling the animal or carcase 

 forthwith after the sale, and not more than 7 days after the date of the certificate, 

 to the chief constable of the jurisdiction in which the sale of the animal or 

 carcase took place, and if any veterinary surgeon or person shall contravene 

 this enactment he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20. 



GENERAL PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF DISEASE. 



Infectious Diseases Prevention. No person suffering from an infectious 

 disease, or who is living in an infected house, shall milk any animal, or pick 

 fruit, or shall engage in any occupation connected with food, or carry on any 

 trade or business in such a manner as to be likely to spread such disease, and any 

 person who, knowing himself to be suffering from any infectious disease, contra- 

 venes this section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10. 



Inspection of Dairies. If the medical officer of any district has evidence 

 that any person in the district is suffering from an infectious disease attributable 

 to milk supplied within the district from any dairy situate within the district, 

 or that the milk of any such dairy is likely to cause any such disease to any 

 person residing in the district, such medical officer shall visit the dairy, and the 

 medical officer shall examine the dairy and every person engaged in the service 

 thereof or resident upon the premises or who may be resident in any premises 

 where any person employed in such dairy may reside, and if accompanied by 

 a veterinary surgeon shall examine the animals therein, and the medical officer 

 shall report forthwith the results of his examination accompanied by the report 

 of the veterinary surgeon, if any, to the local authority or any committee 

 appointed to deal with such matters. 



If the medical officer of any district has evidence that any person in the 

 district is suffering from any infectious disease attributable to milk from any 

 dairy without the district, or that the milk from any such dairy is likely to cause 

 any such disease to any person residing in the district, such medical officer shall 

 forthwith intimate the same to the local authority of the district in which such 

 dairy is situate, and such other local authority shall be bound, forthwith, by its 

 medical officer to examine the dairy and the persons aforesaid, and by a veteri- 

 nary surgeon to examine the animals, previous notice of the time of such 

 examination having been given to the local authority of the first-named district, 

 in order that the medical officer or veterinary surgeon may, if they so desire, be 

 present at the examination referred to, and the medical officer of the second- 

 mentioned local authority shall forthwith report the results of his examination, 

 accompanied by the report of the veterinary surgeon, if any, to that local 

 authority appointed to deal with such matters. 



The local authority of the district in which the dairy is situated, or any 

 committee appointed for the purpose, shall meet forthwith and consider the 

 reports together with any other evidence that may be submitted by parties 



