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slaughtered by official order. If a larj^e uuinberare suspected, they may be fattened 

 aud sent to the abattoir as quickly as possible. 



(d.) lufected stables aud other places should be nuder the special surveillauce of 

 the police for an entire year, counting from the last case of the disease. The sale of 

 beasts suspected of infection should be interdicted, nnless it is for slaughter, and 

 under tlie insiiection of a veterinarian. 



(e.) The place occupied by a tuberculous animal ought to be cleansed and disinfected, 

 the animal having been previously removed ; it ought to be the same when the malady 

 has disappeared from stables and other closed places in which tuberculous animal* 

 have been kept ; it is only after disinfection that the prescribed police measures should 

 be removed. During the whole course of the panzootic the stables should be especi- 

 ally well ventilated. 



(/.) The flesh and viscera of a tuberculous animal can only be utilized for consump- 

 tion when the disease is found in the cadaver in its incipient stage, when the lesions 

 are confined to a very small portion of the body, when the lymphatic glands are still 

 free from all morbid tuberculous lesion, when tl;e tuberculous formations have not 

 yet nndergone softening, when the flesh presents the characters of meat of the first 

 quality, and when the animal is in a good state of nutrition at the time of slaughter. 



It should not be permitted to remove the flesh of tuberculous animals, admitted to 

 consumption, out of the locality where they have been slaughtered, and it should not 

 be oft'ered for sale in the ordinary butcher's stall. 



Every quarter of meat and all viscera showing lesions of tuberculosis, as well as 

 the flesh of any other animal in which there is found at the necropsy a tuberculous' 

 infection more pronounced than that referred to above, should be watered with pe- 

 troleum oil, and afterward buried under police supervision. The extraction of fat by 

 cooking and the utilization of the skin may be j)ermitted. 



The in-ipection of every animal attacked by tuberculosis should be made by a vet- 

 erinarian, who alone should decide if the flesh is fit for human consum[)tiou. 



((/.) The milk of animals suffering from tuberculosis, or suspected of it, should not 

 be consumed by man nor certain animals. The sale of such milk should be severely 

 interdicted. The milk of animals suspected of infection should only be used after, 

 boiling. 



(h.) Under proper safeguards against its abuse, it would be proper to furnish in- 

 demnities for cattle slaughtered by official order in consequence of tuberculosis, also 

 for those that have died from this malady, and for those found to be tuberculous after 

 they have been killed for human food. The indemnity may be paid out of the state 

 treasury, or to create the re(|nisite funds resort may be had to an obligotary insur- 

 ance. 



(i.) Violations of orders relative to measures preventive and repressive of tubercu- 

 losis should be punished. 



(/.) As a safeguard of the public health against the dangers which threaten it 

 through the consumi>tion of flesh furnished from diseased animals, of stale or putrid 

 meat, and of falsified sausage and mince-meat there should be established in every 

 commune a competent service for the inspection of meats. 



(A-. ) Establishments which make a specialty of furnishing milk for invalids, or for 

 infants, ought, as regards these milch animals, to be submitted to a constant control 

 confided to veterinarians officially designated for this purpose. 



In rcooiuinending these resolutions for the adoption of congress it 

 has been felt that they are full}' called for in view of the danger which 

 has long- threatened tlie interests of stock owners and the health of the 

 coininiinity, and which constitutes a veritable calamity. 



Lydtin begins by tracing the history of tuberculosis, showing how 

 like other diseases, and notably glanders, it appears in forms that are 



