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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
“ 2. Cleansing and Disinfection. 
“ When any animal suffering from any contagious or 
infectious disease has been landed at any port, or has been 
slaughtered at the landing-place in consequence of being so 
affected, the landing-place, lair, or other place where such 
animal has been, shall not be used for any other animals 
until such landing-place, lair, or other place has been pro- 
perly cleansed and disinfected. 
“ 3. Cattle Plague . 
“ When cattle plague has been detected in one or more 
of a cargo of animals, the whole of the animals forming such 
cargo shall be detained and slaughtered at the place of 
landing. 
“4. Pleuro-Pneumonia. 
“ When pleuro-pneumonia has been detected in one or 
more of a cargo of animals, the whole of the cattle forming 
part of such cargo shall be subject to the following regula- 
tions, namely : — 
“ When such cattle have been landed at any place other 
than within the defined part of a port, they shall be slaugh- 
tered at the landing-place, or if, at the port at which such 
cattle are landed, there is a part defined for slaughter, they 
may, with the permission of the Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Customs, be removed into such defined part for 
the purpose of such slaughter. 
“ When such cattle have been landed within a defined 
part of a port, or have been moved as above provided into 
such defined part, they shall not be removed therefrom 
alive, but shall be slaughtered within such defined part. 
“ 5. Foot-and-Mouth Disease. 
“ When foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in one 
or more of a cargo of animals, the following regulations 
shall apply : Provided that such regulations shall be deemed 
to apply only to the class of animals amongst which the 
disease has been found to exist. 
