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station, a distance of 225 miles, and to avoid the heat of the 

 low-lying country, arrangements can be made with the traffic 

 manager to rail stock from Mombasa during the night so 

 that by morning animals, will have reached the cool 

 atmosphere of the uplands. 



The Veterinary Department enforces regulations under the 

 authority of the Diseases of Animals Ordinance. The 

 Ordinance demands that all cattle imported into East Africa 

 shall be accompanied by a certificate, certifying that the 

 animals have satisfactorily passed the tuberculin test, and 

 that all horses imported have satisfactorily passed the mallein 

 test for glanders. Dogs, other than those imported from 

 England, Australia, St. Helena, New Zealand, the Azores, 

 and the South African Colonies — Rhodesia excepted — are 

 subject to a quarantine of three months. 



The principal diseases affecting cattle are East Coast fever, 

 rinderpest, and contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 



East Coast fever is a disease caused by a minute parasite 

 which is transmitted from sick to healthy by certain varieties 

 of ticks. This disease has caused enormous mortality in 

 South Africa, ninety-five per cent, of affected animals having 

 succumbed. Mortality in some districts of East Africa has 

 been considerable. Scientific investigation has proved, 

 however, that the disease has been in existence for a number 

 of years in various parts of the Protectorate, and that the 

 native animal in these districts exhibits an immunity to the 

 disease. In the Nairobi-Kyambu district, the mortality from 

 this disease during the years 1907-8 was very high, and 

 stringent quarantine regulations were imposed. Many of 

 these restrictions have been either removed or greatly relaxed, 

 and with the fencing of the dairy farms in the district and 

 the introduction of Theiler's method of immunisation, it is 

 hoped that in the near future it will be possible to facilitate 

 the movement of cattle by raising the restrictions now 

 imposed. 



There are still many parts of the Protectorate which are 

 free from East Coast fever, and it is the endeavour of the 

 Veterinary Department to keep clean non-infected pasture 



