APPENDIX III 



DENMARK 



Act of February 5, 1904, containing Measures against 

 Tuberculosis among Cattle and Pigs ^ 



A SUM of 100,000 kr., granted every year by the Eigsdag (Parlia- 

 ment) on the recommendation of the Committee of Ways and 

 Means, shall be placed at the disposal of the Minister of Agri- 

 culture for the support of cattle-farmers who wish to employ 

 tuberculin as a diagnostic remedy in combating tuberculosis among 

 their cattle, the tuberculin test being applied according to detailed 

 regulations issued by the Minister. The support shall be granted 

 to none but such farmers as guarantee their ability to keep the 

 animals, proved by the test to be healthy, safely isolated from the 

 animals affected by tuberculosis, or which have not been subjected 

 to the tuberculin test. 



The Minister of Agriculture shall — on the same conditions — 

 be entitled to employ part of the sum to support cattle-breeding 

 associations which wish to subject the animals selected for breeding 

 purposes to the tuberculin test, as well as to support farmers' 

 associations desiring to subject cows belonging to cottagers to the 

 tuberculin test. 



Farmers who do not fulfil their obligations with regard to 

 isolation shall return to the State the grants which have been 

 made to them in accordance with the above provisions. 



Any veterinary surgeon superintending the application of the 

 tuberculin test on a farm shall satisfy himself, under penalty of a 

 fine, that safe isolation between the animals is established, and if 

 his orders to this effect are not obeyed by the farmer, he shall 

 notify this to the chief veterinary surgeon of the country. 



Applications from cattle -farmers, cattle-breeding associations, 

 and farmers' associations desiring to take advantage of the oppor- 



' As printed iu Professor Bang's paper, Sixth Internatioiud Congress on 

 I'loberculosis, vol. iv. part ii. p. 865. 



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