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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Part S relates to cleansing and disinfection in connection 
with the transit of animals by water, railway, or road, and 
the exposure of them in fairs, markets, sale yards, place 
of exhibition, lairs, and other places. 
Part 4 is concerned entirely with the rules which are 
applicable to Animals during transit, and to ships, 
trucks, vans, and other vehicles in which they are carried; 
to means of preventing unnecessary suffering, and to the 
supply of water and food to animals in transit. 
Part 5 is directed to the trade in foreign animals, and 
includes all the regulations which are in force as to the 
prohibition of importation of animals from certain coun¬ 
tries, rules as to slaughter and quarantine, and also as to 
the conditions which affect the landing of animals not subject 
to slaughter or to quarantine. Special rules are to be applied 
to animals from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, 
and also to cows and goats "which are taken on board 
vessels for the purpose of supplying milk to the passengers 
or crew. 
Part 6 is general, and refers chiefly to notice of disease, 
miscellaneous matters, and forms of licences to be used by 
officers of local authorities. 
A minute acquaintance with the details of every section 
of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act and the articles 
of the Animals Order is not to be expected of a veterinary 
surgeon in active practice, but some knowledge of the scope 
and intention of existing legislation cannot be other than 
useful to those who may be called upon at any moment to 
advise in reference to the course which should be adopted in 
case of an outbreak of a contagious disease among stock. 
Any veterinary surgeon, whether an appointed inspector or 
not, may, under the terms of the Act, be called upon to assist 
the local authority in an inquiry as to the nature of a 
disease; and it is much to be desired, in the interests of the 
public as much as in those of our profession, that veterinary 
surgeons of experience should be more often employed by 
local authorities than they are to aid in such inquiries. In 
one county, according to a report which we observed some 
time ago in a local paper, this very judicious course has 
