Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.

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and everyone is forbidden to bring to such places, or to market places in
towns, or there to offer for sale, animals which be knows to be suffering from
such diseases. Furthermore the High Sheriff may . cause a general examination
to be made by a Veterinary Surgeon, of all *domestic animals of like species
which may be threatened by contagious disease. The examinations should be
effected in such a manner- that all opportunity of spreading infection thereby
be avoided. The King, or the person authorized by him, may prescribe special
precautionary measures to be observed in the transport of animals by rail or
by vessels, on the outbreak of contagious disease amongst domestic animals.
e 4 .
Should any domestic animal be attacked by any of the diseases named in
2, or should there be any likelihood of their being attacked, its owner shall
call in a qualified Veterinary Surgeon, or announce the fact, in towns to the
Chief Commissioner of Police, in the country to the Head Constable of the
district (Lensmand). Should the animal be found to be suffering from such
(iisease, or that there is all probability that such is the ease, the diseased animal
shall at once be separated from healthy animals, and the objects with which it
has been in contact cleansed, so far as possible. Should the animal bave arrived
from another district, the Chief Commissioner of Police, or the Head Constable
therein must be informed of the occurrence. The King, or the person authorized
by him, may determine ail further regulations which for each individual
disease may be deemed necessary to effect the complete isolation of the diseased
animal, and the cleansing in connection with it.
§ 5 .
Should any suspicion "exist that the disease is cattle plague or pleuropneumonia,
the High Sheriff may order one or several animals to be slaughtered
in order that a greater certainty of knowledge concerning it may be gained from
an examination of the slaughtered beasts by a Veterinary Surgeon. Those
auimals which, on the declaration of a Veterinary Surgeon, must be regarded
as being attacked by one of the two diseases above mentioned, must, at the
requirement of the High Sheriff, be slaughtered, unless the Government Depurtment
mentioned in § 1, should order otherwise. The Department may also
at the commencement of the disease, in any place in which it . appears, order
the slaughtering of the entire stock in which the disease has broken out. Every
horse which, according to the declaration of a Veterinary Surgeon, is attacked
by glanders (as mentioned in § 2) must be destroyed. Provided the owner of
those animals which shall thus be slaughtered should claim compensation for
them they shall, previous to slaughtering be appraised by an officer of Police
(in the country by the Head Constable) together with two other men appointed
by bim: The animals shall be awarded the value they would presumably bave
had. when ,unaffected by the disease, but provided any use can be made of the
slaughtered • beasts • the value obtainable shall be deducted from • the estimate.