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Inspector or officer of the Board for the cleansing and disinfection of such 

 place, and of any utensils, pens, hurdles, or other things used for or about 

 such cattle. 



(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this Article 

 shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894. 



Prohibition to Expose or Move Diseased or Suspected Cattle. 



(1) It shall not be lawful for any person — 



(a) To expose a diseased or suspected head of cattle in a market or 

 fair, or in a sale-yard, or other public or private place where cattle 

 are commonly exposed for sale : or 



(6) To place a diseased or suspected head of cattle in a lair or other 

 place adjacent to or connected with a market or a fair, or where 

 cattle are commonly placed before exposure for sale ; or 



(c) To send or carry, or cause to be sent or carried, a diseased or 

 suspected head of cattle on a railway, canal, river, or inland 

 navigation, or in a coasting vessel ; or 



{d) To carry, lead, or drive, or cause to be carried, led, or driven, 

 a diseased or suspected head of cattle on a highway or thorough- 

 fare : or 



(e) To place or keep a diseased or suspected head of cattle on common 

 or uninclosed land, or in a field or place insufficiently fenced, or 

 in a field adjoining a highway unless that field is so fenced or 

 situate that cattle therein cannot in any manner come in contact 

 with cattle passing along that highway or grazing on the sides 

 thereof ; or 



(/) To graze a diseased or suspected head of cattle on pasture being 

 on the sides of a highway ; or 



(^) To allow a diseased or suspected head of cattle to stray on a 

 highway or thoroughfare or on the sides thereof or on common 

 or uninclosed land, or in a field or place insufficiently fenced. 



Influenza. 



Influenza is an infectious disease characterised by a catarrh of 

 the respiratory or the gastric mucous membrane, accompanied by 

 great prostration and mental depression, and frequently ending 

 fatally by pneumonic complication. One attack is not protective. 

 The disease has occurred in the form of great epidemics, like the 

 pandemic of 1890, which is said to have started from Bokhara, and 

 travelled to St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris, and London, whence it 

 spread all over this country. The incubation period is extremely 

 short, only a few hours, so that numbers are attacked almost 

 simultaneously. The occurrence of cases in succession in a family, 

 the importation of the disease by an infected person, and the escape 

 of persons in completely isolated localities, point to the existence 

 of a living contagium. Pfeiffer claims to have identified it with a 



