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increased supervision and registration would serve the same purpose in a 
sounder manner and at less cost. Special cases, such as cases early in an 
u break, might, 1 think, receive special consideration, and an owner who 
reports early the first cases m an outbreak might be rewarded by full 
compensation for his losses or otherwise. The penalties for concealment 
of cases should be rigidly enforced, a minimum as well as maximum fine 
specified, and an informer should receive a portion of the fine. 
The principle in isolating cattle in an outbreak should be to move the 
apparently healthy cattle from the sick ones and their surroundings, not the 
removal of the sick cattle With each fresh case the herd should'ffie moved 
and, as far as possible, subdivided into small groups. In this manner a laro- e 
proportion of a herd will escape. Naturally this can only be dene where 
theie is abundant space, and then requires the erection of temporary sheds. 
emova of diseased cattle and thoroughly cleansing and disinfecting 
the sheds is less effective, but if the other method is impracticable is of 
The use of serum, as already pointed out, in effective doses should limit 
the spread of the disease to the cattle infected at the time of injection. In a 
future outbreak I think larger doses both for Indian and Siamese cattle should 
be used, even if this necessitates limiting the injection to actual contacts. 
e universal inoculation with serum and either simultaneously or 
shortly after injecting with virulent blood is, in my opinion, impracticable 
m this country at present. It can only be practised during the occasional 
ccurrence of Rinderpest, as virulent blood cannot be preserved. The doses 
of serum required for Malay buffaloes must be large, and for the various 
mixed breeds and for the cattle from various parts of the country are 
.There would be serious risk that the disease might be widely dis¬ 
seminated by the method and that many of the protective inoculations 
would fail and that the mortality amongst those injected would be large. 
1 u < R aC j Ua J 0SS to the State and people of Selangor cannot be estimated 
only by the deaths amongst the animals. These were 350 to 400, of a value 
o some $40,000 or less. For one animal that died at least two were 
prevented from working for say two months, and the loss in earnings 
of these cattle, in wages of grass cutters, attendants, etc., was considerable. 
serious loss to the public was the delay and inconvenience caused 
o public and private work by the necessary closing of roads and interference 
wit 1 cartage and traffic. 1 he rise in the price of cattle and cartage has 
been considerable. 
With the extensive clearings that now exist in various parts of the 
coun ry t ere is no reason but the occurrence of these epidemics why cattle 
raising on both a small and a large scale should not be remunerative. The 
successful raising of stock would benefit the country, and the cessation 
°r . he >^ e lm P ort trade ln cattle diminish the risk of the introduction 
of the disease. 
To conclude.—The disease is one which has been and probably will be 
imported from time to time, usually by sea. Some, perhaps the greater 
number, of these importations are preventable. If early notification of 
cases and early information of movements of cattle can be obtained even 
when the disease is imported its spread should be easily restricted and the 
irect losses from the disease small. For such a result a permanent annual 
expenditure for increased supervision would be requisite. 
