572 VETERINAEY HYGIENE 



This regulation may be sound law, but it is not common sense. 

 There is no more reason why a man should be permitted, if so dis- 

 posed, to bottle up glandered horses, than he is permitted to maintain 

 pleuro-pneumonia cases alive, but the Order permits it, simply to avoid 

 giving compensation. 



Under Sections 19 and 20 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, a local 

 authority may be empowered by the Board to give compensation for 

 certain diseases other than cattle plague, and these sections have been 

 made applicable to glanders. 



A local authority may, therefore, if they thiiik fit, destroy any 

 glandered animal, unless the owner objects, in which case reference 

 must be made to the Board. 



Any suspected animal may also be destroyed with the consent of the 

 owner. 



Compensation in these cases falls on the local rates, and is fixed at 

 such sum as the local authority thinks expedient, being a minimum 

 of £2 for a diseased horse, and if compensation be given above the 

 minimum it is not to exceed one fourth the value of the animal imme- 

 diately before it became diseased. 



If on destruction of a suspected animal it proves to be healthy, the 

 full value of the animal immediately before destruction is paid as com- 

 pensation, the sum being previously agreed upon between the local 

 authority and the owner. Where no such agreement has been made, 

 there are definite rules laid down in the Order for determining the 

 amount. 



Although it is illegal for an owner to send a glandered horse in a 

 vehicle, local authorities may employ a properly constructed cart for 

 the transit of glandered animals to suitable places of destruction. The 

 regulations require that the vehicle shall be cleaned immediately after 

 use, the floor and walls being scraped and swept, the scrapings, sweep- 

 ings, litter, and manure, being effectually removed and mixed with 

 quicklime, after which the van is thoroughly washed or scrubbed with 

 water, and a coating of lime-wash applied. 



The carcase of every animal dead or destroyed from glanders, shall 

 either be buried, burned, or destroyed'chemicaUy, all under the eye of 

 the local authority. 



If buried there must be at least six feet of earth on top of the body 

 and the latter covered with a sufficient quantity of quicklime or other 

 disinfectant, the skin being freely slashed. 



If the carcase is to be cremated or treated chemically, the local 

 authority must hold a licence from the Board to enable this to be 

 done ; it is then carried out under the inspection of the local authority, 

 being first disinfected, and then taken in charge to the place approved 

 for the above purpose. 



If the burial or destruction of the carcase is carried out in the 



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