506 VETBRINAKY HYGIENE 



The modifications particularly applying to pleuro-pneumonia are that 

 an Inspector can serve a notice on the occupier of an infected place if 

 he believes a case of pleuro-pneumonia to have occurred even fifty-six 

 days previously. Further, the main preventive measures fall to the 

 local authorities rather than the Board, and the former, in declaring 

 the limits of an infected place, may include the adjoining part of the 

 district of another Authority, provided their consent in v?riting is 

 obtained. 



The local authorities may, fifty-si.'c days after the last case of pleuro- 

 pneumonia, declare on veterinary advice the place to be free from 

 disease. 



All action and recommendation of the local authorities must be 

 reported to the Board, and the latter have the power to make their 

 ov\fn regulations to meet the necessities of the case, and to prohibit 

 or sanction under special conditions the holding of fairs, markets, 

 exhibitions, or sale of animals, within the affected area. 



Under certain conditions movements of cattle may be made in an 

 infected area by licence of the local authority, granted on the con- 

 ditions imposed by the Board ; but no cattle can be moved into or 

 out of an infected place, excepting under the direct authority of the 

 Board. 



Every person moving cattle under licence shall on demand produce 

 the movement licence. 



It is incumbent on the local authority to report to the Board any 

 herd of cattle within its district which has been in the same field, 

 shed, place, or herd with any cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia, or 

 otherwise exposed to infection. 



Important powers are given to local authorities, when specially 

 authorized by the Board, to prohibit or regulate movements of cattle 

 within the whole of their district, or any part of it, with the view of 

 preventing the spread of pleuro-pneumonia. 



In all cases the local authority have to send a copy of every regula- 

 tion bearing on this matter, to each Eailway Company having a 

 station within the district to which the regulation applies. 



All cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia are destroyed by order of 

 the Board, also suspects and in-contacts. For all animals destroyed 

 compensation is given ; for the affected it is three-fourths the value 

 prior to attack, not exceeding thirty pounds ; for all others their full 

 value, not exceeding forty pounds. The cost of compensation is paid 

 by the Board out of a Parliamentary grant. 



The disposal of carcases of those animals which have died or been 

 destroyed is the same as that for Cattle Plague, with the exception 

 that the local authority may make certain regulations for prohibiting 

 or regulating the removal of carcases, or for securing the burial and 

 destruction of the same. Further, they may permit a carcase to 



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