SANITARY POLICE AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 943 
Immediate slaughter, under rules as to indemnity, of all 
animals attacked by the plague, and of those suspected in 
consequence of the influences to which they have been 
exposed. 
Burial of the carcases of all plague-stricken animals, so that 
no portion can be used for any purpose whatever. 
Utilization of the meat of animals killed on suspicion to be 
allowed under special conditions rigorously determined. 
Destruction of the germs of contagion wherever they can be 
found : in cattle-sheds, manure-heaps, forage, and harness; 
on the roads, fields, waggons, railway-trucks, &c.; in fact, 
everywhere and upon everything that can have been exposed 
to the influence of contagion. 
Isolation, as complete as possible, of the places in which 
the plague has been discovered, in such a manner that no 
animal susceptible of carrying the contagion can find an exit, 
and that none can enter capable of receiving it. 
This isolation must be prescribed and practised on farms, 
in localities, parishes, and, in fact, in districts of greater or 
less extent according to the spread of the plague. 
The establishment, round the localities the isolation of 
which has been prescribed, and which have been declared 
infected , of a zone in which the movement of ruminants is pro¬ 
hibited, as well as the trade in and the transit of everything 
that may possibly serve as a vehicle for contagion, whether 
fodder, manure, and animal products and refuse of every 
kind, 
The suspension of fairs and cattle-markets in a certain 
region round the centres of infection. Enumeration of all 
the ruminants in the infected locality and the suspected zone, 
so that the local authority may have a guarantee that animals 
are not removed clandestinely from the places which they 
properly occupy. 
As soon as a case of cattle plague has been officially proved 
in a locality, the immediate declaration of every case of any 
disease to w r hich ruminants are liable to become compulsory 
on the owners and keepers of those animals. 
After the disappearance of the cattle plague from a locality, 
and after the application of disinfecting measures, very careful 
precautions to be prescribed in reference to the process of 
restocking the fields and cattle-sheds, as well as in re-estab¬ 
lishing free movement of cattle, and the commercial trans¬ 
actions of which it is the object. 
To these measures, which are for the most part of ancient 
date, and the efficacy of which, when carried out in their 
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