Eradication of Swine Fever. 



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The Committee make the following recommendations : — 



(i) In order to extirpate swine fever the policy should be 

 adopted as rapidly as possible under which : (a) All swine 

 known to have been, or reasonably suspected of having been, 

 exposed to the contagion of swine fever should be 

 slaughtered, with compensation ; (b) the movement of swine 

 from markets should be controlled by licence requiring 

 subsequent isolation. 



(ii) The whole of the expenditure incurred by the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries should be borne by the Exchequer. 



(iii) The general restrictions on the movement of swine 

 should be maintained. 



(iv) Article 16 of the Swine Fever Order of 1908 should be 

 made compulsory as regards paragraph (1), which provides 

 (a) for the owner of any boar kept for service of sows other 

 than his own keeping a register ; (b) every pig-dealer keeping 

 a register of purchases and sales; and (c) in respect of all 

 carts in which swine are conveyed to markets, sales, or fairs, 

 the carts to be disinfected by the local authority before leaving 

 the market, sale, or fair. 



(v) Castrators should be required by the Board to keep 

 registers of their operations. 



(vi) The validity of licences for movement should be ex- 

 tended to eight days. 



(vii) A completely uniform system of procedure should be 

 adopted by all local authorities, both as regards the granting 

 of licences and the interchange of declarations. 



(viii) To secure uniformity, forms required by the Board's 

 Orders should be put on sale by H.M. Stationery Office. 



(ix) Steps should be taken by all local authorities to secure 

 the collection of all licences for movement immediately after 

 use. 



(x) Insanitary premises on which outbreaks have occurred 

 should be kept closed until the alterations necessary for 

 thorough disinfection and for preventing the danger of the 

 spread of disease in case of the re-introduction of infection 

 have been carried out. 



(xi) All swine exposed in markets, sales, and fairs should be 

 inspected by a veterinary inspector employed and paid by the 

 local authority. 



