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The Outbreak of Cattle-Plague. 
Randall ; Mr. Ridley, M.P. ; Professor Simonds : Mr. Torr y 
M.P. ; Mr. Wells ; and Mr. Jacob Wilson. 
This deputation had an interview with the Lord President of 
the Privy Council the same afternoon. 
On April 12th the following Order was made by the Privy 
Council : — 
" 1. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after the fifteenth 
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven ; and words in 
this Order have the same meaning as in The Animals Order of 1875. 
" 2. This Order extends to the City of London and Metropolitan Police 
District only. 
"3. Every person having in his possession or under his charge an animal 
affected with cattle-plague, or with disease suspected to be cattle-plague, shall 
observe the following rules: — 
" (1). He shall, as far as practicable, keep that animal separate from 
animals not so affected ; 
" (2). He shall, with all practicable speed, give notice of the fact of the 
animal being so affected to a constable of the police establishment for 
the place where the animal is. 
"The constable shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Clerk of the 
Council at the Veterinary Department. 
" 4. No animal (including a dog) shall be moved alive out of a building or 
inclosed space in which cattle-plague exists or has existed within seven days.^ 
" 5. Where an Inspector of the Privy Council affixes at or near the entrance 
to a building or inclosed place in or on which cattle are kept, and wherein 
cattle-plague exists or has existed within seven days, a notice forbidding 
persons to enter into or on that building or place without his permission^ 
then, if any person not having a right of entry or way into, on, or over that 
building or place, enters into, on, or over the same, or any part thereof, in 
contravention of the notice, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against 
this Order, and shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not 
exceeding five pounds. 
" 6. Every person having been in a building or inclosed place in which 
cattle-plague exists or has existed within seven days shall, before leaving 
that building or inclosed place, disinfect his clothes to the satisfaction of the 
Inspector of the Privy Council or other officer acting on his behalf. 
" 7. The carcass of an animal that has died of cattle-plague, or has been 
slaughtered in consequence of being affected with cattle-plague, shall not be 
moved out of a building or inclosed place in which it has so died or been 
slaughtered, except in a van exclusively set apart and used for the purpose of 
conveying such carcasses ; and every such van shall immediately after each 
occasion of use be cleansed and disinfected in manner provided by Article 18 
of The Animals Order of 1875. 
" 8. All milk-cans, churns, pails, tools, and appliances, and other appa- 
ratus, used for or about animals in a building or inclosed place in which 
cattle-plague exists or has existed within seven days, shall be cleansed and 
disinfected as often, and in such manner, as an Inspector of the Privy Council 
directs or approves. 
" 9. Every building or inclosed place in which an animal affected with 
cattle-plague has been kept while so affected, or has died of cattle-plague or 
been slaughtered in consequence of being affected with cattle-plague, shall be 
thoroughly cleansed and disinfected under the direction of an Inspector of the 
Privy Council. 
" 10. The provisions of this Order apply to all places being infected places at 
the time when this Order takes effect. 
