176 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



all the blame of the deaths and dissasters that result from their ai)athy 

 and neglect.) — -1. L. 



k,j:solutions adopted. 



First question. — Vcterinari/ scrrive. 



1. Tooiganizeiri each conntrya veterinary service, exclusively charged 

 with all that pertains to this service, of which the members, all veter- 

 inarians, should be counselors of every department of the Government, 

 but which should be more especially represented inclose relation to the 

 central power; that veterinary medicine should there have her chief of 

 service. 



2. The veterinary sanitary service should utilize the greatest i)ossible 

 number of veterinarians. It embraces the surveillance of fairs and 

 markets of aninuils ; the inspection of butcher meat and abattoirs ; the 

 control of rendering works ; the inspection of breeding animals ; the 

 surveillance or direction of mutual assurance against the mortality of 

 stock ; the revision of the census lists of domestic animals, «&c. ; it com- 

 prehends the service of the state, and may be nmde international, em- 

 bracing especially the repression and suppression of contagious and 

 ejMzootic; affections, also the control of the various other veterinary 

 services. 



3. Between the various states which, by a regular repressive and 

 preventive service against epizootics, can furnish guarantees of a good 

 veterinary sanitary police, there should be established a treaty having 

 for its object — 



{a) To apprise the other states as speedily as possible of any out- 

 break of rinderpest, pleuro-i)neumonia, aphthous fever, sheep-pox, mal- 

 adie du coit, glanders (or farcy), or of scab in sheep. 



{b) To publish periodically a sanitary bulletin upon these maladies, 

 their extent, progress, and extinction, which particulars should also be 

 published in the international bulletin if Judged necessary. 



(c) To oppose these maladies by measures of sanitary police, which 

 have first been discussed and adopted as the most desirable. 



{(l) To furnish with animals and herds, moved into or out of any 

 territory, certificates of origin and health of a value guaranteed by the 

 administration. 



(e) To contribute to the i)ublication of an international veterinary 

 sanitary bulletin. 



Second question. — Fleuro-pneunionia. — Lung plarjue. 



A. — DiFFF.RKNTlAL OIACiNOSIK. 



1. From an anatomical point of view, at least in its relation to veter- 

 inary police, one maj^ consider as epizootic contagious pleuro-pneu- 

 monia; every pneumonia which is lobular and at the same time inter- 



