800 PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
thereof immediately, or within eight hours at most, to the 
nearest sub-inspector ; he should also be subjected to fine 
if he does not separate his sick animals from the healthy 
as completely as circumstances will allow, and shut them 
out by hurdles, or other means, from all highways, running 
streams, canals, or pools, to which the cattle of other persons 
have access, as well as neighbouring pastures in which healthy 
cattle are located. He should also be prevented moving live 
animals from premises without license, and he called upon to 
cleanse and disinfect all infected places ; burn or bury all 
infected fodder, dung, &c.; and give to the inspector and 
sub-inspectors all needful information of the number of 
animals in his possession. 
8. On an outbreak of disease being reported to the sub- 
inspector, he should immediately, or as soon as possible, 
visit the premises ; declare them infected ; note the number 
of cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats thereon, and order, if not 
previously done, the complete separation of the sick from the 
healthy, and their perfect isolation from public highways, 
canals, running streams, and neighbouring cattle. The sub- 
inspectors should, also, by the first post or otherwise, send 
immediate notice of the outbreak, with list of animals and 
the time when notice was first received by him, to the 
veterinary inspector, and also to the chief inspector of the 
district. He should likewise visit the premises as often as 
convenient — at least twice a week — and see that all the 
rules and orders are properly observed. He must see that 
the numbers on the premises at declaration of recovery corre- 
spond with those at outbreak, or account for all missing 
animals or added ones, and report thereon to the chief in- 
spector. He must also inspect the railway cattle-trucks, 
pens, and yards, in his district, as often as practicable. 
Note . — No efficient check on the movement or substitu- 
tion of animals can be established without employing brands 
or marks. 
9. The veterinary inspector, on receiving notice of an out- 
break, is to visit the animals ; examine them as to the nature 
of the disease ; compare the number on the premises with 
the sub-inspector’s list; give instructions as to cleansing, 
disinfecting, isolation, and movements ; grant licenses for 
the movement of healthy cattle to slaughter-house; visit 
animals at least once a week ; examine them carefully before 
pronouncing them recovered ; send notice of freedom from 
infection, when recovered, to the chief inspector, and in 
from seven to ten days from date of such notice re-examine 
them, and if found perfectly free from contagious disease 
