Sanitary Police and the Cattle-Plague. 
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animals attacked by the plague, and of those suspected in conse- 
quence of the influences to which they have been exposed. 
Burial of the carcases of all plague-stricken animals, so that 
no portion can be used for any purpose whatever. 
Utilization of the meat of animals killed on suspicion to be 
allowed under special conditions rigorously determined. 
Destruction of the germs of contagion wherever they can be 
Ibund : in cattle-sheds, manure-heaps, forage, and harness ; on 
the roads, fields, waggons, railway-trucks, &c. ; in fact, every- 
where and upon everything that can have been exposed to the 
influence of contagion. 
Isolation, as complete as possible, of the places in which the 
plague has been discovered, in such a manner that no animal 
susceptible of carrying the contagion can find an exit, and that 
none can enter capable of receiving it. 
This isolation must be prescribed and practised on farms, in 
localities, parishes, and, in fact, in districts of greater or less 
extent according to the spread of the plague. 
The establishment, round the localities the isolation of which 
has been prescribed, and which have been declared infected, of 
a zone in which the movement of ruminants is prohibited, as 
well as the trade in and the transit of everything that may pos- 
sibly serve as a vehicle for contagion, whether fodder, manure, 
and anim.al products and refuse of every kind. 
The suspension of fairs and cattle-markets in a certain region 
round the centres of infection. Enumeration of all the ruminants 
in the infected locality and the suspected zone, so that the local 
authority may have a guarantee that animals are not removed 
clandestinely from the places which they properly occupy. 
As soon as a case of cattle-plague has been officially proved 
in a locality, the immediate declaration of every case of any disease 
to which ruminants are liable to become compulsory on the 
owners and keepers of those animals. 
After the disappearance of the cattle-plague from a locality, 
and after the application of disinfecting measures, very careful 
precautions to be prescribed in reference to the process of 
restocking the fields and cattle-sheds, as well as in re-establishing 
free movement of cattle, and the commercial transactions of 
which it is the object. 
To these measures, which are for the most part of ancient 
date, and the efficacy of which, when carried out in their entirety, 
has been proved by the experience of all ages and all countries, 
the Conference has added another. This regulation is entirely 
new and highly important, both from the point of view of com- 
merce and as a sanitary precaution. It consists in the obligation 
