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4. AVlien the owner can not supply suitable conveniences for 

 quiirantiiiing sueli a horse, or where reasons exist which rentier such 

 a procedure necessary to the public good, 



5. If the owner refuses to comply with the veterinary police 

 regulations. 



AVhen necessary, suspected horses should be branded in a man- 

 ner to be fixed by law. 



A hoi-se must be looked upon as " suspected " when it has stood 

 in the same stable with one known to have or have had the disease ; 

 or when it is known that it has been exposed to infection from such 

 a horse. 



Suspected horses or stables must be subjected to periodical ex- 

 aminations by an accredited veterinarian ; these revisions should 

 occur at least once in eight days. 



Such horses may be allowed to be used within certain limits and 

 according to certain regulations of the civil authorities. 



Such horses should be kept under veterinary control for a period 

 of not less than three months. If the restrictive regulations of the 

 civil authorities are not rigidly adhered to, suspected horses must be 

 subjected to stable (quarantine, where veterinary revision should also 

 take place at least twice a month. 



The animal should be peremptorily killed, should the owner 

 attempt to evade these rules, and the evasion punished by law. 



Should the disease extend from an infected locality, a careful 

 examination of the horses in the vicinity should l)c made. 



The cadavers of horses killed on account oi e;landers should 

 either be chemically destroyed or securely buried, after the hide 

 had been destroyed by slashing and the carcass rendered unpal- 

 atable by saturation -with kerosene. Three feet of earth should 

 cover such cadavers, and the burial-place be either fenced in or 

 pave<l. 



Public watering-troughs are to be condemned, and faucets put 

 in their place. Ilackmen, teamsters, etc., should be obliged by law 

 to carry buckets to water their horses. 



The disease may be declared as ended — 



"When all diseased or suspected horses have been killed, or when 

 the latter have been declared free from suspicion. 



When the infected 8tal)les, utensils, harnesses, etc., have been 

 thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. 



