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malleni ma}/ come into the market, some of which may be 

 unproved, the Board will be willing to advise Local Authorities 

 regarding those proved after numerous trials to be reliable. 

 Directions as to the best methods of applying the test for 

 the purposes of the new Order are given below (see p. 424). 



As regards the results of the mallein test the Order 

 [Article 7 (5)] provides for three eventualities : (a) " definite 

 evidence of disease," which will be followed by immediate 

 slaughter; (b) "indications of the disease not amounting 

 to definite evidence of disease," which will be followed by a 

 second test within twelve days ; and (c) cases in which the 

 original application results in no indications of disease, or in 

 which the second application does not result in definite evidence, 

 in which cases the animals will cease to be subject to re- 

 strictions imposed by the Order at the expiration of 48 hours 

 after the application of the test. The respective meanings 

 which the Board intend to express by the phrases " definite 

 [ evidence of disease " and " indications of the disease not 

 amounting to definite evidence of disease " are set out in the 

 directions as to applying the mallein test. 



The Order [Article 7 (3)] requires that the Local Authority 

 shall exercise the power of serving the owner with a notice 

 restricting movement in the case of every horse, ass or mule 

 which has, in the opinion of the Local Authority, been exposed 

 to the risk of contagion of glanders. Where a notice of the 

 kind has been served, the Local Authority are under an 

 obligation to apply the mallein test at once to the animals, 

 j after being requested by the owner to do so [Article 7 (4)]. 

 It is evident, therefore, that the question of the meaning 

 to be attached to the expression " exposed to the risk of 

 contagion " assumes considerable importance, and it is thought 

 that Local Authorities would be well advised in issuing in- 

 structions for the guidance of their veterinary inspectors^ 

 on whom will fall the responsibility of deciding whether or 

 not a particular animal can fairly be considered to have been 

 in contact with a dangerously diseased animal. 



The Board are advised that where clinical evidence of 

 glanders or of farcy is present, every horse, ass or mule that 

 has been stabled in juxtaposition to the diseased animal, 

 or which has been tended by the. same individual or watered 



