EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 647 
An important feature of the Supplemental Order is the 
application of the provision of the Diseased Animals in 
Transit Order to Swine Fever, to meet the difficulty which 
would occur if a market, or railway station, or slaughter¬ 
house, were to be declared an infected place in consequence 
of the disease being detected at any one of these places. In 
fact, before the Supplemental Order was passed, a local 
authority did declare a certain railway truck in which a 
diseased pig was found an “ infected place . 55 
Altogether the measures for the stamping out of swine 
fever are sufficiently stringent for the purpose if properly 
applied by the local authorities and, we add, by the mem¬ 
bers of our profession. Swine fever is not a new disease, but 
we have reason to believe that some veterinary surgeons who 
fill the responsible office of advisers to the local authorities 
have not made themselves familiar with the characters of 
the disease. More than once well-defined specimens of the 
morbid parts of swine affected with swine fever have been 
forwarded for our inspection, with the statement that the 
veterinary inspector had declared that the disease was not 
swine fever. As every local authority is bound by law to 
obtain the assistance of a veterinary inspector when inquir¬ 
ing into the correctness of a report, it is of some importance 
that the person who fills the office should take a little trouble 
to investigate the disease if he is not already familiar with 
its characteristic appearances. 
* POISONING BY SAUSAGES. 
In the last issue of the Veterinarian a case of poisoning of 
several persons by sausages, which had been purchased at 
a stall in the market at Thaxted, was recorded, and it was 
stated that the Local Authority had ordered an analysis of the 
sausage meat to be made by the medical officer of health. 
We have since received a local paper, The Braintree and 
Boohing Advertiser , in which we find a full report of 
the examination and of the conclusions arrived at by the 
medical officer. We have read many reports of the exam- 
