360 PRUSSIAN REGULATIONS FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



month. If the disease extends, if circumstances exist which make 

 such an extension probable, the police may order a special supervis- 

 ion, bj the official veterinarian, of all the horses owned in the place. 

 " The cadavers of horses diseased with glanders are to be either 

 chemically destroyed, or buried after the skin has been so cut as to 

 utterly destroy its value. The burial-places must be so deep that 

 at least four feet of earth covers the buried bodies. The selection of 

 the burial-place rests with the police. These regulations are not 

 applicable to horses at veterinary schools or other government es- 

 tabhshments, where they are requu"ed for educational or experi- 

 mental pui'poses. The disinfection and cleansing of stables in which 

 diseased animals have stood must take place under police super- 

 vision. A record of the same must be kept in writing. 



• " The disease is declared at an end when all glanders-diseased or 

 suspected horses are dead, or when the latter have been declared 

 free by the veterinarian of the state. When no suspicious phenom- 

 ena have presented themselves during the course of the pohce con- 

 trol. When the cleansing and disinfection have been performed 

 and attested to. 



" It is the duty of the police to make this known to the public 

 in the usual manner. This publication is not necessary in the large 

 cities and towns, where the presence of the disease, or its suspicion, 

 is not made public." 



Variola Ovina. 



" The outbreak of this disease in a flock of sheep is to be made 

 known, without delay, by the police, in the usual manner. The in- 

 fected place is to be indicated by appropriate inscriptions at promi- 

 nent points. The police have at the same time to quarantine all the 

 sheep at the infected locality. So far as circumstances will allow, 

 the visibly diseased are to be isolated from the apparently healthy 

 sheep. The owner of the sheep has to supply the proper conven- 

 iences for this purpose, and assist in carrying out the regulations. 

 The passage of such quarantined sheep to the pastures is only to be 

 permitted when the situation and nature of the pastures are such as 

 to forbid the extension of the disease, or such that police regula- 

 tions can attain this end." 



The owner of the sheep has also to comply with the following 

 regulations : 



'•' The removal of the manure from infected stables in such ways 

 or to such places that it would endanger the infection of sheep 

 from other places is to be forbidden, unless this danger can be 

 obviated by other police regulations. Hay and straw from the in- 



