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it has engaged the attention of our confreres in every country. 
It was specially examined in 1885 by the Second National 
Congress of French Veterinary Surgeons, established as a 
Sanitary Congress. After a very prolonged discussion it was 
decided by 28 votes against 17 to demand from the govern¬ 
ment the inscription of tuberculosis among the diseases recog¬ 
nised by the Act of the 21st July, 1881,011 the Sanitary Police 
of Contagious Maladies. 
The French Government took this view into consideration, 
for on the 12th November, 1887, it added bovine tuberculosis 
to the contagious diseases, in the decree which rendered the 
Act of 21st July, 1881, on Sanitary Police, operative in Algeria. 
Finally in another decree, dated the 28th July, 1888, it classed 
this disease with those recognised by the sanitary law on 
French territory. 
Consequently at the present time bovine tuberculosis is 
the object of repressive sanitary measures in France and 
Algeria. 
The general dispositions of the law which prescribe to 
owners of animals attacked by a contagious disease, or to 
veterinary surgeons authorised to attend to them, to make the 
declaration, and which forbid their being exposed for sale, or 
removed without previous permission, are applicable to tub¬ 
erculosis as to all the diseases officially reputed contagious. 
The administration has also indicated with detail the measures 
which it desires to oppose to tuberculosis. It is well that the 
Congress should know that these measures are not absolutely 
identical in France and in Algeria. 
In Algeria, when tuberculosis is diagnosed, the Mayor or 
administrator of the commune issues a decree prescribing the 
slaughter of the animal affected ; the flesh cannot be sold for 
consumption 
In France every animal recognised tuberculous is isolated 
and sequestrated, and it cannot be removed except for slaugh¬ 
ter, which is carried out under the surveillance of a sanitary 
veterinary surgeon. The consumption of the flesh of tuber¬ 
culous animals is sometimes permitted under certain condi¬ 
tions which we shall examine later on. 
It will doubtless be remarked that these measures, although 
