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75.—(2.) Compulsory slaughter should be accompanied by supplementary measures, 
such as restrictions on the movement and sale of cattle within, or coming from, infected 
districts. 
76.—(3.) Any exception to, or modification of, the system of compulsory slaughter, 
as provided in the Slaughter Order, 1888, should only be applicable to cattle in the 
dairy yards, byres, and cowsheds of large towns, the owners or occupiers of which 
may claim in writing the privilege of exemption for their cattle from immediate 
slaughter, on the following conditions :— 
(a.) No head of cattle that has been brought into such dairy premises shall be 
removed therefrom, except for the purpose of immediate slaughter. 
(b.) In the event of an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia, all the diseased cattle shall 
be slaughtered. 
(c.) All the remaining cattle on such premises where an outbreak has occurred 
shall be branded, and regularly subjected to the thermometer test ; and when- 
ever a continuous increase of temperature, rising above 104°, is shown, they 
shall be slaughtered. 
(d.) No fresh cattle shall be admitted into such premises while any of the cattle 
thus branded remain alive. 
77.—(4.) Tnoculation, for the reasons already detailed, cannot be recommended 
as a means of eradicating pleuro-pneumonia, nor as practicable under existing 
conditions. Although it is open to owners to inoculate their cattle, it should be dis- 
tinctly understood that that operation shall not give them any immunity from the 
regulations above suggested. 
8.—(5.) The scale of compensation for animals slaughtered compulsorily should 
remain as at present. In the case of dairy cows, however, compensation should be 
awarded upon the basis of their value for dairy purposes, and not of their value to 
the butcher. 
79.—(6.) We recommend that, in order to put a stop to the frequent concealment 
of disease, a more stringent scale of penalties be put in force. 
(a.) That, for the first offence, the penalty should not be less than one-quarter of the 
present maximum penalty. 
(b.) For the second offence, not less than one-half. 
ce.) For the third offence, not less than three-quarters: 
ta) The full penalty for any further offence. 
The above to be irrespective of anything contained in the Summary Jurisdiction 
(Scotland) Act, 1881. 
80.—(7). The administration of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts throughout 
the United Kingdom, so far as they refer to compulsory siaughter and to the treatment 
and control of animals in herds or on premises where an outbreak of pleuro- 
pneumonia has occurred, or in the surrounding area, shall be subject to, and 
under the direction of, a central authority. 
81. Local Authorities shall continue to exercise all the powers that they at present 
possess, subject to the foregoing transfer of control to the central authority in the 
case of an outbreak of disease. 
82.—(8.) In all cases of compulsory slaughter, compensation should be provided 
from a national fund, whether drawn from the Consolidated Fund, or from a national 
rate specially levied for this purpose. All other charges—such as for inspection, 
disinfection, &c.—should be defrayed from a local rate, as at present. 
83.-—(9.) It is highly desirable that the system of appointing veterinary inspectors 
by Local Authorities should be amended. Under each Local Authority there should 
be one responsible inspector, and care should be taken to secure the services of duly 
qualified and experienced veterinary surgeons. 
84.—(10.) Throughout the United Kingdom district inspectors should be appointed 
by the central authority, under whose direction they shall be, and to whom only they 
shall be responsible. Whether this system be adopted for the whole of the country or 
not, it is, in our opinion, highly desirable that it should be at once put into operation 
in those districts which we have already indicated as specially infected with disease. 
85.—(11.) A more Sc Sm and careful inspection of town dairies and cowsheds is 
e consider that every encouragement should be given to the 
removal of such establishments from crowded centres of population, and we would 
suggest the advisability, where possible, of suitable buildings being erected by 
q corporations or other authorities, and let out to dairymen and cowkeepers. 
86.—(12.) A special system of inspection, and further restrictions upon the move- 
‘q _ ment of dairy cows, should be immediately established in the Dublin districts. 
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