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Appendix D.
Directions for the collecting and packing of material for despatch to
Muktesar for purposes of investigation,
Blood, pus and other fluid, should be forwarded either in sealed
pipettes or as smear preparations on cover-glasses or slides. In using the
pipettes the following precautions are to be observed :—Both ends of
pipette to be sterilized in the flame (spirit lamp), one end to be
broken by means of a sterile forceps and inserted in the fluid, after which
the other end is to be broken. The fluid will then be drawn up into the
-pipette. Sometimes it is necessary to aspirate, but care should be taken that
fluid is not drawn into the mouth. After filling the pipette, seal both ends
in the flame. Two or three pipettes should be filled and after carefully
rolling in cotton-wool or other soft material, be packed in a box and for-
warded as early as possible.
To obtain blood from a living animal, a vein in the ear can be punc-
tured or an incision made into a muscle.
Care must be taken to wash the part and to sterilize with 5per cent
carbolic or other antiseptic fluid (not corrosive sublimate). The part
should be allowed to dry before making the incision, in order that the
blood may not be mixed with any of the antiseptic. If blood is taken from
an incision in muscle or skin, pressure should not be exerted on the part, as
in this way an excess of serum and few blood corpuscles are obtained.
In taking blood from a dead animal the most suitable method (except
in Anthrax) is to expose the heart, and after sterilizing an area by apply-
ing the heated blade of a knife, insert the pipette through this part into the
right ventricle of the heart.
In case of Anthrax, the blood is taken immediately after death from
vein of ear.
Smear preparation can be taken from any fluid, also from organs as
liver, spleen, etc. In such preparation, care must be taken that the material
is sterile and that the surface layer is as thin as possible. Thick smears
are useless. To take cover-glass preparations of blood or other fluid, a
drop, about the size of a pin head, is to be taken on one cover-glass and
immediately a second glass placed over this and allowed to rest for a
second, then drawn rapidly apart. No pressure should be exerted and no
delay made. If the blood corpuscles are drawn out, or fibrine deposited
on the glass, the preparations are useless. In the same method a prepara-
tion of fluid can be made on a slide by smearing the fluid by means of
the edge of a second slide or by means of a surgical needle. These prepara-
tions should be allowed to dry before packing. Each slide or cover-glass
should be carefully labelled. Before using care is to be taken that cover-
glasses and slides are clean.
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Appendix D.—(Contd.)
Organs, tissues and neoplasms should be taken as fresh as possible,
well washed in water and then placed in alcohol, rectified spirit, corrosive
sublimate (saturated solution) or formaldehyde (10 parts of the commercial
formaline to 90 parts water). Sections of more than one inch square are
not required for microscopical examination.
Cultures. — Culture tubes are inoculated by means of the platinum wire
or by use of pipettes. To take material from the interior of organs and
tissues, the surface is first sterilized by searing it with a hot knife which
has been heated in the flame of a spirit lamp and then a small incision is
made with another hot knife in the seared or sterilized area. The material
from the interior is collected on the end of the platinum wire, which has
also been previously heated in the flame. In the case of exudations care
should be taken not to contaminate such fluid by handling before the
material for culture has been obtained. The material is transferred by
means of the platinum wire to the surface of the culture medimum avoid-
ing the breaking of the surface. The material should be in small quantity
and be well distributed over the nutrient surface. A second tube should
be inoculated from the first, by touching the platinum wire previously
sterilized and cooled on the surface of the first tube, and rubbing the infect-
ed wire over the surface of the second tube.
At post mortems, cultures are made from heart, liver, spleen, lungs or
kidneys.
Culture tubes should be labelled after inoculation. Culture from the
blood of the heart should be made before the removal of that organ from
the body by scaring the right ventricle and then puncturing it with a
sterilized knife to admit the platinum wire in the pipette. The amount of
the blood used for the culture should be as much as will adhere to the
platinum wire, or one drop from a pipette.
In order to prevent contamination of the culture media, the rubber
cap should not be removed till tubes are required for use. After removing
the rubber caps, the mouth of the tube is sterilized in flame and after
inoculation of the media the cotton plug is slightly burnt in flame before
being inserted again in the tube. Before replacing the rubber cap after
inoculation of cultures, these should be sterilized by washing in aseptic
solution.
In case of Charbon Symptomatique a small piece of the infected
muscle should be dried and placed in a sterile test tube without any anti-
septic.
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Appendix E.
The Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899, with Notifications and Rules
thereunder.
ACT No. XIII OF 1899.
PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN
COUNCIL.
Received the assent of the Governor General on the 20th March, 1899.
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Glanders and
Farcy.
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to
Glanders and Farcy; It is hereby enacted as follows : —
Short title,
extent and
commence-
ment.
I. (1) This Act may be called the Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899.
(2) It extends to the whole of British India.
Defination of
" diseased ",
2. (1) In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject
or context," diseased " means affected with Glanders or Farcy or any other
dangerous epidemic disease among horses which the Governor General
in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, specify in this
behalf, either generally or in respect of any local area.
(2) The provisions of this Act relating to horses shall apply also to
asses and mules.
Application
of Act to
local areas by
Local Gov-
ernment
3. The Local Government may, by notification in the local official
Gazette, apply this Act, or any provision of this Act, [so far as all or any of
the diseases mentioned in or specified in a notification under Section 2, Sub-
section (I), are concerned to any local area], to be specified in such
notification, within the Province.
Local Gov-
ernment to
appoint In-
spectors.
4. (1) When this Act has been so applied to a local area, the Local
Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, appoint such
persons as it thinks fit to be Inspectors under this Act and to exercise
and perform, within the whole of the local area, or such portions thereof
as it may prescribe, the powers conferred and the duties imposed by this
Act on such officers.
X. L. V. of
1860.
(2) Every person so appointed shall be deemed to be a public servant
within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code.
Power of
entry and
search.
5. Within the local limits for which he is so appointed, any such
Inspector as aforesaid, may, subject to such rules as the Local Government
may make in this behalf, enter and search any field, building or other place
for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is therein any horse which
is diseased.
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Appendix E.—(Contd.)
Glanders & Farcy.
Power of
seizure.
6. Within such limits as aforesaid, the Inspector may seize any horse
which he has reason to believe to be diseased.
Horse to be
examined by
Veterinary
Practitioner.
7. (1) On any such seizure as aforesaid, the Inspector shall cause
the horse seized to be examined as soon as possible by such Veterinary
Practitioner as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf:
Provided that, when the Inspector is also a Veterinary Practitioner so
appointed, he may make the examination himself.
(2) For the purposes of the examination, the Veterinary Practitioner
may submit the horse to any test or tests which the Local Government
may prescribe.
Horse to be
destroyed if
found diseas-
ed: otherwise
restored.
8. (1) If the Veterinary Practitioner certifies in writing that the horse
is diseased, the Inspector shall cause the same to be immediately destroyed:
Provided that, in the case of any disease other than Glanders or Farcy,
horses certified to be diseased as aforesaid, may, subject to any rules which
the Local Government may make in this behalf, be either destroyed or
otherwise treated or dealt with as the Veterinary Practitioner may deem
necessary.
(2) If, after completing the examination, the Veterinary Practitioner
does not certify that the horse is diseased, the Inspector shall at once deliver
the same to the person entitled to the possession thereof.
When horse
diseased,
place where
it has been
to be disin-
fected, etc.
9. (1) When any diseased horse has been in any building, shed or
other enclosed place, or in any open lines, the Inspector may issue a notice
to the owner of the building, shed, place or lines, or to the person in charge
thereof, directing him to have the same disinfected and the internal fittings
thereof, or such other things found therein or near thereto, as the Local
Government may by rule prescribe, destroyed.
(2) On the failure or neglect of such owner or other person as
aforesaid to comply with the notice within a reasonable time, the Inspector
shall cause the building, shed, place or lines to be disinfected and the
fittings or other things to be destroyed, and the expense (if any) thereby
incurred may be recovered from the owner or other person as if it were a
fine.
Owner or
person in
charge of
diseased
horse
to give
notice.
10. The owner or any person in charge of a diseased horse shall give
immediate information of the horse being diseased to the Inspector or to
such authority as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf.
Prohibition
against re-
moval, with-
out license,
of horse
which has
been with
diseased
horse.
11. No person in charge of any horse which has been in the same
field, building or place as, or in contact with, a diseased horse, shall remove
such horse except in good faith for the purpose of preventing infection, or
under a license to be granted by the Inspector and subject to the conditions
of the license.
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Appendix
E.—(Contd.)
Vexatious
entries,
searches and
seizures.
12. (1) Whoever, being an Inspector appointed under this Act,
vexatiously and unnecessarily enters or searches any field, building or other
place, or seizes or detains any horse on the pretence that it is diseased,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six
months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with
both.
(2) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted after the
expiry of three months from the date on- which the offence has been
committed.
Penalty for
refusing to
comply with
notice under
section 9, or
for removing
horse
con-
trary to sec-
tion it.
13. Whoever refuses or neglects to comply with any notice issued
by the Inspector under section 9, or removes any horse in contravention o
section II, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with
both.
Power
to
make rules.
14. (1) The Local Government may make rules to carry out the
purposes and objects of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing power, such rules as aforesaid may—
(a) regulate entries, searches and seizures by Inspectors under this
Act;
(b) regulate the use of tests and the isolation of horses subjected
thereto, and provide for recovering the expense of detaining,
isolating and testing horses from the owners or persons in
charge thereof, as if it were a fine;
(c) regulate the destruction or treatment, as the case may be, of
horses certified under section 8 to be diseased, and the
disposal of the carcases of diseased horses ;
(d) regulate the disinfecting of buildings and places in which
diseased horses have been, and prescribe what things found
therein or near thereto, shall be destroyed; and
(e) regulate the grant of licenses under section 11 and the condi-
tions on which those licenses shall be granted.
(3) All rules under this section shall be published in the local official
Gazette and, on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted by this Act.
(4) In making any rule under this section, the Local Government
may direct that a breach of it shall be punishable with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to fifty
rupees, or with both.
Appointment
of same
person to be
both Inspec-
tor and
Veterinary
Practitioner.
15. Any Veterinary Practitioner may be appointed by the Local
Government to be both Inspector and Veterinary Practitioner for all or any
of the purposes of this Act or of any rule thereunder.
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Appendix E.—Contd.)
Glanders & Farcy.
Protection
to persons
acting under
Act.
16. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against
any person for anything which is, in good faith, done or intended to be done
under this Act.
NOTIFICATIONS.
Nagpur the 16th April 1910.
No. 165.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 3 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section of the
said Act, as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to declare
that the provisions of the Act shall extend to the whole of the Central
Provinces and Berar.
Hyderabad Residency Orders Notification No. 295, dated the 8th
November 1897, and so much of Central Provinces Gazette Notification
No. 1213, dated the 1st March 1904, as applies to the provisions of the Act
under the aforesaid section, are hereby cancelled.
Nagpur, the 16th April 1910.
No. 166.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 4 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section of the
said Act, as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to appoint
the following Officers ex-officio as Inspectors under the Act for the areas
shown against each.
Hyderabad Residency Orders Notification No. 296, dated the 8th
November 1897, and so much of Central Provinces Gazette Notification
No. 1213, dated the 1st March 1904, as notifies Inspectors under the
aforesaid section, are hereby cancelled.
Inspectors.
The Cantonment Magistrates of
Kamptee, Jubbulpore and Saugor.
The Tahsildar of Pachmarhi
Areas.
Their respective Cantonments.
The Cantonment and Municipality
of Pachmarhi, including the
Piparia-Pachmarhi Dák line.
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Appendix E.—(Contd.)
Inspectors.
Officers of the Army Veterinary
Corps, Jubbulpore.
Officers of the Army Veterinary
Corps, Saugor.
The Deputy Commissioner of each
district in the Central Provinces
and Berar.
The District Superintendent of
Police, or, in his absence, the
Assistant District Superintendent
of Police, or the Head-quarters
Inspector.
The Superintendent, Civil Veterinary
Department.
All Veterinary Inspectors and Vete-
rinary Assistants of the Civil Vete-
rinary Department in the Central
Provinces and Berar.
Areas.
The Cantonment of Jubbulpore and
its vicinity within a radius of five
miles.
The Cantonment of Saugor and its
vicinity within a radius of five miles.
His district.
All Municipalities in the Central
Provinces and Berar situated at the
Head-quarters of districts.
The whole of the Central Provinces
and Berar.
The area in which each of them is
serving, but their jurisdiction will
not extend to Cantonment limits.
Nagpur the 16th April 1910.
No. 167.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 7 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section of the
said Act, as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to appoint
the following Officers as Veterinary Practitioners under the Act, for the
areas shown against each.
So much of Central Provinces Gasettie Notification No. 1213, dated
the 1st March 1904, as notifies practitioners under the aforesaid section,
is hereby cancelled.
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Appendix E.—(Contd.)
Glanders & Farcy.
Veterinary Practitioners.
The Superintendent, Civil Veterinary
Department.
Officers of the Army Veterinary
Corps, Jubbulpore.
Officers of the Army Veterinary
Corps, Saugor.
All Veterinary Inspectors and Senior
Veterinary Assistants of the Civil
Veterinary
Department in the
Central Provinces and Berar.
Areas.
The whole of the Central Provinces
and Berar.
The Cantonment of Jubbulpore and
its vicinity within a radius of five
miles.
The Cantonment of Saugor and its
vicinity within a radius of five miles.
The area in which each of them is
serving, in respect of diseases
other than Lymphangitis Epizootica
and surra.
Nagpur, the 10th November 1914.
No. 490.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 4 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section
of the said Act as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased
to appoint the following officers ex-officio as Inspectors in respect of the
disease " Equine Surra" for the areas shown against each :—
Inspectors.
The Cantonment Magistrates of Kamptee,
Jubbulpore and Saugor.
The Tahsildar of Pachmarhi
...
Officers of the Army Veterinary Corps, Jubbul-
pore.
Officers of the Army Veterinary Corps, Saugor.
The Deputy Commissioner of each district in
the Central Provinces and Berar.
The District Superintendent of Police, or, in
his absence, the Assistant District Superin-
tendent of Police, or the Head-quarters
Inspector.
The Superintendents, Civil Veterinary Depart-
ment.
All Veterinary Inspectors and Veterinary Assis-
tants of the Civil Veterinary Department
in the Central Provinces and Berar.
Areas.
Their respective Cantonments.
The Cantonment and Municipality of Pach-
marhi, including the Piparia-Pachmarhi
Qàk line.
The Cantonment of Jubbulpore and Its vici-
nity within a radius of 5 miles.
The Cantonment of Saugor and its vicinity
within a radius of 5 miles.
His district.
Their respective head-quarter towns and their
vicinity within a radius of 5 miles.
The whole of the Central Provinces and Berar
The area in which each of them is serving,
but their jurisdiction will not extend to
Cantonment limits.
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Appendix E.—(Contd.)
Nagpur, the 10th November 1914.
No. 491.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 3 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, an( * a^so by the same section of the
said Act as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to declare
that the provisions of the Act shall extend to the whole of the Central
Provinces and Berar in respect of the disease " Equine Surra."
Nagpur, the 10th November 1914.
No. 492.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 7 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section of
the said Act as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to
appoint the following officers as Veterinary Practitioners under the Act,
in respect of the disease " Equine Surra for the areas shown against
each:—
Veterinary Practitioners.
The Superintendents, Civil Veterinary Depart-
ment.
Officers of the Army Veterinary Corps, Jub-
balpore.
Officers of the Army Veterinary Corps, Saugor.
Areas.
The whole of the Central Provinces and Berar.
The Cantonment of jubbulporeand its vicinity
within a radius of 5 miles.
The Cantonment of Saugor and its vicinity
within a radius of 5 miles.
Nagpur, the 19th January 1915.
No. 20.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 7 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section of the
said Act as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to appoint
the following officers as Veterinary Practitioners under the Act, in respect
of the disease " Equine Surra," for the area specified :—
Veterinary Practitioners,
The Deputy Superintendents, Civil Veterinary
Department.
Areas.
The whole of the Central Provinces and Berar.
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Appendix E.—(Contd.)
Glanders & Farcy.
Nagpur, the 16th April 1910.
No. 168*.—In exercise of the power conferred by Section 14 of the
Glanders and Farcy Act, XIII of 1899, and also by the same section of
the said Act, as applied to Berar, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to
make the following rules to carry out the purposes and objects of the Act,
subject to the proviso that all references in the rules to Lymphangitis
Epizootica shall be construed as being in force only in the areas noted
below :—
(i) The Municipality of Nagpur and its vicinity within a radius
of five miles ;
(ii) The Cantonments of Kamptee, Jubbulpore and Saugor and their
vicinity within a radius of five miles.
Hyderabad Residency Orders Notification No. 297, dated the 18th
November 1897, and so much of Central Provinces Gazette Notification
No. 1213, dated the 1st March 1904, as promulgates rules under the
aforesaid section, are hereby cancelled.
RULES.
1. The Inspector appointed under Section 4 of the Glanders and Farcy
Act shall, whenever he has reason to believe from personal knowledge or
from information given by any person and taken down in writing that a
diseased horse, suffering from Glanders, Farcy, Lymphangitis Epizootica or
Surra, is to be found in any building, enclosure or place, forthwith proceed
to the said building, enclosure or other place, and in the presence of the
owner or other person then in charge, or, if he is absent, in the presence
of another person, shall inspect the said premises and execute and dis-
charge the duties and powers conferred on him under the Act.
The Inspector may, in such entry and search, be accompanied by a
Veterinary Practitioner appointed under the Act, or by such Police officers
as he considers necessary, or by both.
The owner of the premises or person in charge at the time shall give
free ingress to the Inspector, and shall in every possible way facilitate the
search, and he shall be entitled subsequently to receive from the Ins-
pector a statement in writing of the grounds of entry and, in the event
of his premises being infected, shall be furnished with written instructions
as to his liabilities and duties under the Act, signed by the Inspector.
2. The Inspector shall, if he considers it necessary, seize and hand
over to the Police for detention any horse which he considers or
reasonably suspects to be so diseased. Such horse shall, as soon as
possible and with the exercise of due precautions against contagion to
other horses and men, be examined by a Veterinary Practitioner and dealt
with under the Act. Such precautions shall comprise, in the case of a dis-
charge from the nose, the wearing of a nose bag, and in the case of open
sores, the covering up of the same, so far as is practicable, with disin-
fecting powder and cloths and bandages during removal along public
roads and such removal shall, unless there be any sufficient reason to
the contrary, be at night. These precautions shall be enforced in all case
where horses have to be moved for examination or disposal under the Act.
* As amended by Notification No. 526 dated the 23rd November 1914.