588 VETBEINAEY HYGIENE 



Protective inoculation may be practised for anthrax. 

 Pasteur's vaccination is made with two vaccines. The first 

 is a pure culture of the organism grown for 24 days at a 

 temperature of 108-5° F. The second vaccine is a culture 

 grown for ten days at the same temperature, and inocu- 

 lated ten to fourteen days after the first vaccine. The 

 first vaccine kills mice but not guinea-pigs; the second 

 kills both. By this method of inoculation herbivora get 

 protection for about a year. 



The value of anthrax inoculation is still an uncertain 

 quantity, excepting in notoriously anthracoid districts 

 where any reduction in the annual loss is welcomed. But 

 in countries like Great Britain, where the loss compared with 

 the Continents of Europe or Asia is small, the mortality 

 attending inoculation is hardly worth the risk. Sometimes 

 the vaccines do their work well, at other times there is a 

 somewhat alarming mortahty, and when it is borne in mind 

 that immunity is only temporary, it is doubtful how far the 

 risk is worth running. 



LEGISLATION. 



Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and the Anthrax Order of 1899. 



Notification and duty of Inspector as on p. 497. 



It is the duty of the local authority to inquire into the correctness of 

 any reported case of the disease, the advice of a veterinary practitioner 

 being obtained. 



The owner and occupier of any premises in which a diseased or 

 suspected animal or carcase exists is bound to give reasonable facilities 

 for inquiry. No milk from a diseased cow may be removed from the 

 place where the cow has been kept. 



No animal may be moved into or out of any shed or other place where 

 a diseased animal is, or has died, or been slaughtered, or kept at the 

 date of death or slaughter, until the place is cleansed and disinfected, 

 and the local authority satisfied that no diseased animal remains on 

 the premises. 



Any horse, ass, or mule may, if not diseased, be moved out to any 

 other place. All other animals not diseased should be moved out by 

 the owner, under the supervision of an Inspector, to some convenient 

 place for isolation, where they are to be kept separated from other 

 animals for seven days. 



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