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THE TYPHOID FEVER OF SWINE ORDER 
OF 1878. 
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 17th day of December, 
1878. By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy 
Council. 
Present : Lord President, Lord George Hamilton. 
The Lords and others of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable 
Privy Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in them 
vested under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, and 
of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and 
it is hereby ordered, as follows: 
1. This Order may be cited as The Typhoid Fever of Swine 
Order of 1878. 
2. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after the 
twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and 
seventy-eight. 
3. This Order extends to Great Britain only. 
4. In this Order— 
The Act of 1878 means The Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act, 1878: 
Other terms have the same meaning as in the Act of 1878. 
5. Typhoid fever of swine (otherwise called soldier disease or 
red disease) shall be deemed to be a disease for the purposes of 
the following sections of the Act of 1878 (namely) : 
Section thirty (slaughter and compensation). 
Section thirty-one (notice of disease). 
Section thirty-two (Orders of Council). 
Section fifty (powers of police). 
Section fifty-one (power of entry). 
And of all other sections of the Act containing provisions rela¬ 
tive to or consequent on the provisions of those sections, 
including such sections as provide for offences and procedure. 
6. The provisions of the undermentioned Articles of the fol¬ 
lowing Orders shall, so far as they may be applicable, apply to 
typhoid fever of swfine and to places where that disease is found 
to exist (namely): 
(a.) The Animals Order of 1878— 
Articles eighteen and nineteen (movement or exposure 
of animals). 
Article twenty (movement of dung). 
Articles twenty-one and twenty-two (carcases). 
