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(c.) For the seizure and slaughter of diseased animals 
exposed in fairs, markets, &c, and during transit. 
(d.) For the seizure and slaughter of diseased foreign 
animals at the place of landing in this country. 
One member of the Committee (Professor Horsley) sent in a 
supplementary Report, in which he recommended that breeding 
from tuberculous animals should be prohibited, and also that 
the notification of the existence of the disease should be made 
compulsory on stock-owners, and the neglect to give such notice 
be made a punishable offence. 
The difficulties in the way of dealing with tuberculosis under 
the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts recommended by the 
Committee, are very plainly and clearly set forth by Professor 
Brown in the Annual Report of the Agricultural Department 
of the Privy Council for 1888, in the following terms : — 
" Tuberculosis is in many cases extremely difficult to detect, and therefore 
a number of diseased animals would probably altogether escape notice. 
Further, there are several common affections from which cattle suffer, which 
are constantly mistaken for tuberculosis, and which are usually considered of 
a tuberculous nature. Should an Order be passed to deal with tuberculosis, it 
is quite certain that numbers of cases of actinomycosis and other diseases, 
as well as of animals suffering from debility as the result of starvation, would 
be reported as tuberculosis, and the animals suffering from these affections 
would be seized and slaughtered. 
'* Nor do the difficulties end here. Tuberculosis is known to exist in 
certain pedigree herds, and many valuable animals would fall under suspicion 
which could only be verified or proved to be false by the test of a post-mortem 
examination. In such cases the inspector would find himself on the horns of 
a dilemma. He would be forced to slaughter an animal worth some hundreds 
or perhaps thousands of pounds on a suspicion which might prove to be 
baseless ; or he must keep the suspicion to himself and let the animal alone. 
" Compensation presents another difficulty not easily disposed of. The 
Act of 1878 provides that compensation for diseased animals slaughtered 
shall be a proportion of the value of the animal immediately before it became 
diseased, i.e. when it was healthy. An old consumptive cow in the state of 
a 'piner' or 'waster' would not be worth more than the value of its hide 
when slaughtered, while in its original healthy state it might have been 
worth a considerable sum. 
" Compensation for valuable pedigree cattle would certainly form a point 
of contention between owners and local authorities in every case where the 
slaughter of a valuable animal was ordered. 
" In the present state of the law affecting the landing and disposal of 
foreign animals, the inclusion of tuberculosis in the list of diseases within the 
provisions of tfie Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts would lead to com- 
plications which no scheme that has yet been devised will rectify, and, 
having regard to all the circumstances which have been referred to, their 
Lordships did not deem it expedient to pass the Order of Council which had 
been prepared on the lines of the Departmental Committee's Report. 
Legislation for tuberculosis must be considered from two 
different points of view : 
1. In the interest of the public health, restricting or pro- 
