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PROFESSOR WALLEY. 
Means of discovering Outbreaks. 
Now, Mr. President, I would substitute for the term “con¬ 
cealed centers,” the exact opposite term, “undiscovered cen¬ 
ters,” and repeat what I have said over and over again, that 
it is the duty of the Executive to find out these undiscovered 
centers :—ist, by abolishing all private slaughter houses; 2d, 
by establishing public abattoirs, and insisting that all dead 
meat shall be taken to a receiving house connected with these; 
3d, by appointing a staff of veterinary (not police) inspectors 
for the whole country, as was done in cattle plague time ; 4th, 
by making the notification of disease compulsory, and by the 
making of post mortem examinations of the carcasses of all 
dead animals by State paid veterinary surgeons compulsory ; 
5th, by substituting imperial for local compensation ; 6th, b}^ 
increasing the area of infected circles, so far as the public ex¬ 
posure of animals for sale therefrom is concerned, and length¬ 
ening the period of segregation. In this county segregation 
of infected places for fifty-six days has always been consid¬ 
ered sufficient, and the consequence has been that very fre¬ 
quently immediately on its expiry, or shortly afterwards, fresh 
cases of the diseases have occurred. In continental countries 
the isolation or maintenance of the cordon extends to months; 
in Canada a quarantine is insisted on to ninety days; in the 
United States and Australia to many months ; and in Den¬ 
mark segregation extends over six months, or even more ; 7th, 
by giving power to the veterinary inspector to seize and 
slaughter every sick animal in which the symptoms are such 
as to afford reasonable grounds for the suspicion that it is suf¬ 
fering from pleuro-pneumonia ; 8th, by scheduling tuberculo¬ 
sis as a contagious disease, and lastly, by placing the control 
of all measures introduced for the purpose of suppressing not 
only this, but other maladies of a similar nature, in the hands 
of one central authority. 
If such measures as these I have just sketched were en¬ 
forced, it would be almost impossible for unscrupulous per¬ 
sons to hide the existence of the disease in their premises for 
weeks or months, while they, during that period, are bringing 
