830 GLASGOW COLLEGE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. 
to grant diplomas to students from all parts of Great Britain 
and Ireland, and so placing all veterinary surgeons on an 
equal footing, was enough to carry out in an efficient manner 
the education of the veterinarian. 
There has very recently been passed an ^^Act to con¬ 
solidate, amend, and make perpetual the Acts for preventing 
the introduction or spreading of contagious or infectious 
diseases among cattle and other animals in Great Britain.” 
This proceeding on the part of our Government will tend 
very considerably to benefit the public and the profession, 
and as it were raise the name and increase the duties and 
emoluments of veterinary surgeons. I shall place before you 
the substance of this Act, that you may thoroughly under¬ 
stand the duties and responsibilities of veterinary inspectors. 
“ The term contagious or infectious disease includes cattle- 
plague, pleuropneumonia, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, 
sheep-scab, and glanders, and any disease which the Privy 
Council from time to time by order declare to be a conta¬ 
gious or infectious disease for the purposes of this Act. 
“ Every local authority shall from time to time appoint so 
many inspectors and other officers as appear to the local 
authorities necessary for the execution of this Act, and shall 
assign them such duties, and award them such salaries or 
allowances as the local authorities think fit, and may at any 
time revoke any appointment so made, but so that every 
local authority shall at all times keep appointed at least one 
inspector. 
Every person having in his possession, or under his 
charge, an animal (including a horse) affected with a con¬ 
tagious disease, shall observe the following rules: 
^‘(1) He shall, as far as practicable, keep such animal 
separate from animals not so affected. 
‘‘ (2) He shall, with all practicable speed, give notice to a 
police constable of the fact of the animal being so affected ; 
such police constable shall forthwith give notice thereof to 
the inspector of the local authority, who shall forthAvith 
report the same to the local authority and to the Privy 
Council. 
Where an inspector finds any contagious or infectious 
disease to exist in his district, he shall forthwith make a 
return to the local authority and to the Privy Council of the 
number and description of all animals being on the farm or 
in the shed, or other place Avhere the disease is found, Avhich 
he considers liable to be affected Avith the disease, distinguish¬ 
ing those that are healthy from those that are actually 
affected Avith the disease, and shall continue to make a 
