Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.

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Expenses to be paid to the Publi, Authorities (Police, Veterinary Surgeons,
etc.) in connection with the measures to be adopted in regard to the diseases,
shall be paid by the State and the District concerned, which also shall pay
the costs of disinfection in certain cases, against repayment on the part of the
owner concerned.
Compensation for healthy animals which have been slaughtered, shall be
avarded by the Treasury, but by the latter and the District Treasury concerned
combined, when the animals destroyed have been suffering from disease.
According to the Laws in force, every case of any kind of malignant contagious
disease amongst domestic animals will therefore be under the treatment of a qualified
Veterinary Surgeon.
The warrant to practise as Veterinary Surgeon is issued by the Chief of
the Veterinary Department, and is only conferred on such persons as have
passed the examinations at a recognized Veterinary College. The Norwegian
Veterinary Surgeons have, as a rule, passed the highly reputed Royal Danish
Veterinary and Agricultural College at Copenhagen.
Most of the Veterinary Surgeons practising in this country are publicly
appointed as County Veterinary Surreons. They are placed under the direct
control of the High Sheriff concerned, and have to conform to the instructions
issued to them. They receive fiXed salaries paid by the State and district
Authorities combined A Government Veterinary Surgeon is also appointed in
the western counties of Norway, with residence in Bergen, acting directly
under the orders of the Department, and has to devote special attention to the
contagious diseases which may break out in those parts. A similar Government
Veterinary office has lately been established for the counties of Nordland,
Tromso and Finmarken.
The Chief of the Veterinary Department is connected with the Home Department
as its adviser, and is at the same time both Surgeon and Physician,
as well as Veterinary Surgeon. He has at his disposal a laboratory, in which
to make Veterinary scientific investigations. As he is at all times informed of
the state of health of the domestic animals throughout the country, he has
every opportunity from personal inves tigation, d by direct interference ora
influence on the Department, to enter into the circumstances which may demand
special attention, and when necessary to at once see that a possible
outbreak of epizootic disease is energetically opposed. Experience has also
shown that the present machinery works satisfactorily, as it has succeeded in
keeping the country free from those kinds of contagious diseases which play
important parts in the economy of Agriculture.
Likewise as the importation to Norway of ruminants is, at present, prohibited
from all countries; as horses may only be imported on condition of their
being provided with bills of health, and subjected to examination by a Veterinary
Surgeon ; as the importation of dogs is prohibited from all countries
except Sweden and Denmark, from which countries bills of health are required,
and as the exceptions in force in respect to these laws are only in favour of