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and it was made an offence for cattle affected with that disease 
to be exposed in any market. 
In the Act 32 & 33 Victoria, cap. lxx. August 1869, several 
new provisions were legalised, and all former Acts were re- 
voked. Disease was defined to mean cattle plague , pleuro- 
pneumonia , foot-and-mouth disease, sheep-pox , sheep-scab , and 
glanders , and any disease which the Privy Council might by 
order specify. Power was given as to limits of ports for the 
landing of foreign animals. 
The principle of the Act in regard to foreign animals was 
that of free importation, with power for the Privy Council to 
prohibit or subject to quarantine or slaughter, as circumstances 
might render necessary. In short, the Act of 1869 was the 
most complete measure which had ever been passed for dealing 
with diseases of animals. 
Under the provisions of the Act of 1869 farcy was declared 
by Order of Council, which came into operation in July 1873, to 
be a disease for the purpose of the Act. 
The next Bill, which was introduced by his Grace the Duke 
of Richmond and Gordon, K.G., marked a further advance in 
sanitary legislation. It arose from the circumstance that cattle 
plague was again introduced into England in 1877, and a Select 
Committee was appointed to inquire into the matter, with the 
result that landing of foreign animals for slaughter only was 
affirmed as a principle, which was embodied in the Act of 41 & 
42 Victoria, August 16, 1878. Free importation or quarantine 
on the one hand, and prohibition on the other, were provided for 
under exceptional circumstances. 
Under the provisions of the Act of 1878 cattle plague was 
to be dealt with by the Privy Council. Local authorities were 
ordered to slaughter cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia, and 
power was given to slaughter cattle which had been exposed to 
infection. Infected places were to be declared in foot-and-mouth 
disease, but no reference was made to slaughter. In fact, when 
the Bill was in Committee the promoters gave a distinct under- 
taking that slaughter was not contemplated in foot-and-mouth 
disease. 
y Since the Act of 1878, which repealed the Act of 1869, 
other diseases than those above named in the definition of disease 
(i.e. cattle plague, pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, 
sheep-pox, sheep-scab, and glanders) have been added to the list. 
Swine fever was declared to be a disease, for the purposes of the 
Act of 1878, by an Order of Council which came into operation 
in December 1878. 
Anthrax and rabies were declared to be contagious diseases 
