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(a) No head of cattle that has been brought into such dairy premises 

 shall be removed therefrom, except for the purpose of immediate 

 slaughter. 



(6) In the event of an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia, all the diseased 

 cattle shall be slaughtered. 



(c) All the remaining cattle on such premises where an outbreak has 

 occurred shall be branded, and regularly subjected to the ther- 

 mometer test ; and whenever a continuous increase of temperature, 

 rising above 104, is shown, they shall be slaughtered. 



(r/) No fresh cattle shall be admitted into such premises while any 

 of the cattle thus branded remain alive. 



(4) Inoculation cannot be recommended as a means of eradicating 

 pleuro-pneumonia, nor as practicable under existing conditions. Although 

 it is open to owners to inoculate their cattle, it should be distinctly 

 understood that that operation shall not give them any immunity from 

 the regulations above suggested. 



The order at present in force is the Pleuro-Pneumonia Order 

 of 1895. In addition to regulations for the movement of cattle, 

 for disposal of carcasses, for markets, and for compensation for 

 slaughter, the Order contains the following provisions : 



NOTIFICATION. 

 Notice of Disease. 



(1) Every person having or having had in his possession or under his 

 charge a head of cattle affected with or suspected of pleuro-pneumonia 

 shall with all practicable speed give notice of the fact of the head of cattle 

 being so affected or suspected to a constable of the police force for the 

 police area wherein the head of cattle so affected or suspected is or was. 



(2) The constable receiving such notice shall immediately transmit 

 the information by telegraph to the Board of Agriculture. 



(3) The constable shall also forthwith give information of the receipt 

 by him of the notice to an Inspector of the Local Authority, who shall 

 forthwith report the same to the Local Authority. 



Duty of Inspector to act immediately. 



(1) An Inspector of a Local Authority on receiving in any manner 

 whatsoever information of the supposed existence of pleuro-pneumonia, 

 or having reasonable ground to suspect the existence of pleuro-pueumonia, 

 shall proceed with all practicable speed to the place where such disease, 

 according to the information received by him, exists, or is suspected to 

 exist, and shall there and elsewhere put in force and discharge the powers 

 and duties conferred and imposed on him as Inspector by or under the 

 Act of 1894 and this Order. 



(2) The Inspector shall forthwith report to the Board of Agriculture. 



