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Sheep Scabies, 



Swine Fever, 



Glanders, 



Eabies, 



Anthrax, 



Tubercular Disease of the 



Udder of Cows, 

 Epizootic Lymphangitis. 



In course of time outside pressure, the result of intelli- 

 gence, will compel other diseases to be scheduled under the 

 Act, and the first of these will doubtless be tuberculosis. 

 Parasitic Mange in Equines (Ireland), is scheduled by the 

 Irish Department, while certain parts of Great Britain are 

 also brought under the operations of an Order. 



The Orders on the above diseases are frequently being 

 amended to meet the necessities of the case, for example, 

 in the fight against Foot and Mouth Disease, exclusive of 

 many hundreds of Orders passed prior to 1881, in the three 

 years 1881-1883 no less than 2,411 Orders dealing solely 

 with the disease were passed ! 



This may be easily understood on reference to Section 22 

 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, which confers im- 

 mense powers on the Board of Agriculture under thirty- 

 seven headings, which, as they represent the kernel of the 

 Act, are here reproduced : 



Disease and Movement Generally. 



Power for Board of Agriculture to make Orders for Prevention or 

 Checking of Disease, and other Purposes. 

 22. The Board of Agriculture may make such orders as they think 

 fit, subject and according to the provisions of this Act, for the following 

 purposes, or any of them : 



(i.) for prescribing and regulating the publication by placards, hand- 

 bills, or otherwise, in the immediate neighbourhood of a place 

 or area declared infected, of the fact of such declaration ; 

 (ii.) for prohibiting or regulating the movement of animals and 



persons into, within, or out of an infected place or area ; 

 (iii.) for prescribing and regulating the isolation or separation of 

 animals being in an infected place or area ; 



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