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internal organs of animals tlius killed should all be buried, and their 
bides and tallow thoroughly disinfected before they were removed 
from the place of slaughter. No living animal should be allowed 
to leave an infected place for at least two months after the disease 
had subsided. Any one taking a diseased beast to a fair, or wil- 
fully giving false information to the authorities regarding diseased 
beasts, should be subjected to heavy penalties. No breeding animal 
should be permitted (unless by special license) to come from foreign 
countries where the disease is indigenous. Fat foreign cattle should 
only be allowed to land at certain ports, and there they should be 
slaughtered. 
Were some such measures as these enforced by law, I am per¬ 
suaded pleuro-pneumonia would soon be greatly diminished in, if 
not entirely banished from, the British Isles. 
With best thanks, gentiemen, for the patient hearing you have 
given me. I shall now sit down and listen to you, but before I do 
so, let me add that while I have no wish that any of you should 
refrain from freely expressing your minds on what I have said, let 
all seek to bring some practical result out of our discussion j without 
that no benefit will be obtained for ourselves or for others. Perhaps 
it would be conducive to such an object were each speaker to sup¬ 
pose he were required to answer the following questions : 
Whence came the disease, and what is its nature ? Can it be 
successfully treated, and how ? By what means can Britain be 
cleared of it, and how can it be kept clear? 
An animated discussion took place. It was the unanimous 
opinion of the association that it was very difficult in the first case 
of any new outbreak to distinguish between sporadic and epizootic 
pleuro-pneumonia. 
It was also agreed that when pleuro-pneumonia appears in a 
stock the lean animals affected with it should be treated, but that 
fat and well-conditioned ones should be slaughtered immediately 
on the disease showing itself in them. 
It was further considered impossible to eradicate the disease from 
the country while the owners of affected stocks w^ere allowed to 
take such to markets, or remove them from their premises alive, a 
system wdiich has been too often practised. And it w^as considered 
that no breeding animal of the bovine race should be imported into 
the country unless under certain restrictions, and that foreign fat 
stock should be killed at the port of landing. 
A vote of thanks having been recorded to the President, the 
members adjourned to Beid’s Royal Restaurant, where they par¬ 
took of an excellent dinner provided for the occasion. 
. George Robertson, 
Honorary Secretary. 
