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Sheep Scab. 



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executive duties entrusted to Inspectors of a Local Authority- 

 are more efficiently and economically performed by the police 

 than by Veterinary Officers, but in districts in which the Local 

 Authority call upon their Veterinary Inspectors to undertake 

 executive duties in addition to duties requiring professional 

 knowledge, the number of Veterinary Surgeons employed must 

 of necessity be larger than would otherwise be requisite. In the 

 opinion of the Board it is of advantage that the police should 

 be appointed as Inspectors of the Local Authority, and that 

 the Chief Constable should in every case be appointed Chief 

 Inspector to the Local Authority. 



6. Immediately upon the confirmation of the existence of 

 Sheep Scab by the Veterinary Inspector, the Inspector of the 

 Local Authority should proceed to investigate the history of the 

 outbreak, and to put in force the additional powers now granted 

 to him under Article 5 of the Order as regards the isolation of 

 sheep on the same or other premises which he has reason to 

 believe to have been in contact with sheep affected with Sheep 

 Scab, irrespective of the ownership of the sheep, and in serving 

 the prescribed Notice of Isolation (Form C), it should be 

 explained to the owner of such sheep that the restrictions on 

 movement thereby imposed will be removed as soon as the 

 animals in question have been thoroughly dipped by, and at the 

 expense of, their owner in an efficient dip in the presence, and 

 to the satisfaction, of an Inspector of the Local Authority. A 

 copy of any such Notice (Form C.) so served should at once be 

 transmitted to the Board by the Inspector. When such sheep 

 have been removed to the district of another Local Authority > 

 the necessary information should be transmitted to that Local 

 Authority in order that they may be in a position to take 

 similar action on the information received. 



7. In determining whether or not an Isolation Notice 

 (Form C.) should be served in respect of particular sheep, the 

 Inspector of the Local Authority should take a wider view 

 than has, perhaps, hitherto been customary of the risk of the 

 disease being contracted by sheep which have previously been 

 in association with those in which Sheep Scab has been detected. 

 In all operations against contagious disease in animals the 

 endeavour should be to anticipate outbreaks, and to secure that 



