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the second for the owner. Serum treatment might well be 
tried in such cases, but even then quarantine would have to be 
kept up for a considerable period. 
Again, there are cases in which the Board of Agriculture 
and Fisheries at present considers it necessary to declare certain 
premises as infected because of proximity to a place where the 
disease has been proved to exist, although it may be probable 
that the pigs on the premises in question have not yet been 
infected. In such a case it might be safe to abstain from 
quarantining the suspected premises on condition that every 
pig in them received a dose of serum, or several doses at 
intervals of some weeks. 
Tuberculosis. 
The Tuberculosis Order came into force on May 1, 1913, 
and the past year will therefore remain a memorable one in the 
history of contagious diseases of animals in this country. The 
Order may be said to constitute the first official recognition of 
the fact that tuberculosis of cattle is a contagious disease, 
although the Dairies, Cow-sheds, and Milk-shops Order of 1899 
took cognizance of tuberculous disease of the cow’s udder as a 
source of danger to the health of human beings. 
Under the Order every person having in his possession or 
under his charge any cow which is or appears to be suffering 
from tuberculosis of the udder, indurated udder, or other chronic 
disease of the udder, or any bovine animal which is or appears 
to be suffering from tuberculosis with emaciation, is required to 
give immediate information of the fact to a constable of the 
Police Force of the district, or to an Inspector of the Local 
Authority. The owner of an animal regarding which such 
notice has been given is also required to keep it isolated as far 
as practicable from other bovine animals, and also to keep it in 
his possession, or under his charge, until it has been examined 
by a veterinary inspector, or until the owner or person in 
charge of the animal has been notified that it need not be 
further detained or isolated. This obligation to isolate the 
animal and, keep it in the owner’s possession is subject to the 
condition that the animal may at any time be slaughtered by 
the owner or person in charge. 
It is evident that in a sense the Order requires owners of 
cattle to make a diagnosis, or at least to be able to recognise 
certain symptoms as suggesting the existence of tuberculosis in 
.their animals, and it therefore appears to be desirable here to 
point out (1) what are the usual indications of tuberculosis of 
the udder, and (2) what are the other outward evidences that 
an emaciated animal is tuberculous. 
