500 VETEEINAEY HYGIENE 



It is an offence to dig up the carcase of any animal that has been 

 buried. 



Disinfection. — Every facility has to be given by the ovsmer or 

 occupier for the disinfection of an affected place, and it is an offence 

 to fail in this matter. The nature of the disinfection is not de- 

 fined. 



Seizure of Animals. — The Inspector of a local authority may 

 cause to be seized all animals affected with Cattle Plague exposed for 

 sale anywhere, or in course of being moved by land or water, or on 

 common land, or anywhere not in the occupation or under the control 

 of the owner of the animal. 



The seizure of the affected must also comprise the seizure of all 

 animals present at the same time in the place ; the declaration of the 

 place as an infected place can only be made by the Board and not by 

 the local authorities, but such place cannot be used again for animals 

 until it has been cleansed, disinfected, and the Veterinary Inspector's 

 certificate obtained. 



A slaughter-house in which an animal affected with Cattle Plague 

 has been foimd shall not be declared an infected place excepting by the 

 Board. 



There are certain regulations regarding the exposure and movement 

 of diseased or suspected animals which are produced in full, as they 

 apply to several other epizootic affections, and will be frequently 

 referred to in the following pages : 



Section XII. Cattle Plague Order of 1895 : Prohibition to expose 

 or move Diseased or Suspected Animals. — It shall not be lawful for 

 any person — 



(a) to expose a diseased or suspected animal in a market or fair, or 

 in a sale-yard, or other public or private place where animals are com- 

 monly exposed for sale ; or 



(6) to place a diseased or a suspected animal in a lair or other place 

 adjacent to or connected with a market or a fair, or where animals are 

 commonly placed before exposure for sale ; or 



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

 pected animal 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 animal on a highway or thoroughfare ; or 



(e) to place or keep a, diseased or suspected animal 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 situated that 

 animals therein cannot in any maimer come in contact with animals 

 passing along that highway or grazing on the sides thereof ; or 



(/) to gi^aze a diseased or suspected anunal on pasture being on the 

 sides of a highway ; or 



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