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station, a distance of 225 miles, and to avoid the heat of the 
low-lying country, arrangements can be made with the traffic 
manager to rail stock from Mombasa during the night so 
that by morning animals will have reached the cool 
atmosphere of the uplands. 
The Veterinary Department enforces regulations under the 
authority of the Diseases of Animals Ordinance. The 
Ordinance demands that all cattle imported into East Africa 
shall be accompanied by a certificate, certifying that the 
animals have satisfactorily passed the tuberculin test, and 
that all horses imported have satisfactorily passed the mallein 
test for glanders. Dogs, other than those imported from 
England, Australia, St. Helena, New Zealand, the Azores, 
and the South African Colonies—Rhodesia excepted—are 
subject to a quarantine of three months. 
The principal diseases affecting cattle are East Coast fever, 
rinderpest, and contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
East Coast fever is a disease caused by a minute parasite 
which is transmitted from sick to healthy by certain varieties 
of ticks. This disease has caused enormous mortality in 
South Africa, ninety-five per cent, of affected animals having 
succumbed. Mortality in some districts of East Africa has 
been considerable. Scientific investigation has proved, 
however, that the disease has been in existence for a number 
of years in various parts of the Protectorate, and that the 
native animal in these districts exhibits an immunity to the 
disease. In the Nairobi-Kyambu district, the mortality from 
this disease during the years 1907-8 was very high, and 
stringent quarantine regulations were imposed. Many of 
these restrictions have been either removed or greatly relaxed, 
and with the fencing of the dairy farms in the district and 
the introduction of Theiler’s method of immunisation, it is 
hoped that in the near future it will be possible to facilitate 
the movement of cattle by raising the restrictions now 
imposed. 
There are still many parts of the Protectorate which are 
free from East Coast fever, and it is the endeavour of the 
Veterinary Department to keep clean non-infected pasture 
