Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![A.D.1894. oeparatiou of diseased animals,, and notice to constable. Cattle plague infected place. [Ch. 57.] Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] Separation of Diseased Animals and Notice to Dolice. 4. —(1.) Every person having in his possession or under his charge an animal affected with disease shall— (a.) as far as practicable keep that animal separate from animals not so affected ; and (b.) with all practicable speed give notice of the fact of the animal being so affected to a constable of the police force for the police area wherein the animal so affected is. (2.) Tiie constable to whom notice is given, shall forthwith give information thereof to such person or authority as the Board of Agriculture by general order direct. (3.) The Board may make such orders as they think fit for prescribing and regulating the notice to be given to or by any person or authority in case of any particular disease or In case of the illness of an animal, and for supplementing or varying for those purposes any of the provisions of this section. Cattle Diague. 5. —(1.) Where it appears to an inspector that cattle plague exists, or has within ten days existed, in a cow-shed, field, or other place, he shall forthwith make and sign a declaration thereof. (2.) He shall serve a notice, signed by him, of that declaration on the occupier of that cow-slied, field, or other place. (3.) Therervpon that cowshed, field, or other place, with all lands and buildings contiguous thereto in the same occupation, shall become and be a place infected with cattle plague, subject to the determination and declaration of the Board of Agriculture. (4.) The inspector shall serve a like notice, signed by him, unless in the circumstances this appears to him not to be expedient, on the occupiers of all lands and buildings, any part whereof lies, in his judgment, within one mile in any direction from that cow- shed, field, or other place, or on the occupiers of any of those lands and buildings. (5.) Thereupon all the lands and buildings aforesaid, on the occupiers whereof the inspector serves such a notice, shall become and be part of tbe place infected with cattle plague, subject to the determination and declaration of the Board. (6.) The inspector shall, with all practicable speed, inform the Board and the local authority of his declaration and notices, and shall send to the Board his declaration and a copy of his secondly- mentioned notice (if any).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2241695x_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
