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did not teach our legislators a lesson ; the blunder has been 

 committed with swine fever with equally disastrous results. 



The State does not destroy a man's property without 

 compensating him, and, though we hold very radical views 

 on the question of compensation generally, this is a sound 

 and wise proceeding ; but it is unsound to throw the cost of 

 compensation on the local rates, the charge should be an 

 Imperial one. It is hoped that the next object-lesson which 

 will be taken to heart, is that compensation being for the 

 public good should come out of the Imperial Exchequer, and 

 not out of the local rates, or those local authorities on whom 

 the cost of compensation falls are sure to endeavour in every 

 possible way to evade their obligations, in order that they 

 may keep the rates down and stand well in the eyes of the 

 electorate. 



Pleuro-pneumonia was a disease in which compensation 

 from the local rates was authorised by the Act of 1878, 

 three-quarter value (not exceeding ^30) being paid for the 

 diseased, and full value (not exceeding £40) being paid for 

 in-contacts. The remuneration for ordinary stock was 

 liberal, but for pedigree stock disastrous. By the Act of 

 1890 compensation no longer fell on the local rates, and the 

 disease became a thing of the past, no case having been re- 

 ported in the United Kingdom since 1898. 



The method of dealing with pleuro-pneumonia in the 

 United Kingdom is by destruction of all affected and in- 

 contacts, and the isolation of the infected area, in which all 

 movements into and out of are stopped. 



This disease, though highly infectious during the life of 

 the animal, cannot possibly be conveyed either by blood, 

 hides, carcases, fodder, iieces, or by persons in contact with 

 the sick. So far as we know it can only be conveyed from, 

 one animal to another by the expired air from the lungs. 



It is a disease, therefore, where the stoppage of all move- 

 ments within the affected area is unnecessary, it is sufficient 

 to quarantine the affected places, and to destroy the whole 

 herd, to insure complete eradication. 



In dealing with the disease in less congested countries 



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