The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-14 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague.

A supplement to the London Gazette of Friday,
published on Saturday last, contains two orders by
the Lords of the Privy Council, dated the 11th of
August current, relative to the cattle disease. The
first is in the following terms :
" Whereas, by an Act passed in the Session of the 11th
and 12th years of her present Majesty's reign, intituled
'An Act to prevent until the Ist September, 1850, and to
the end of the then next session of Parliament, the spread-
ing of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep,
cattle, and other animals,' and which has since been from
time to time continued by divers subsequent acts, it is
(among other things) enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Lords and others of her Majesty's Privy Council, or any
two or more of them, from time to time to make such orders
and regulations as to them may seem necessary for the pur-
pose of prohibiting or regulating the removal to or from
such parts or places as they may designate in such order or
orders of sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals, or
of meat, skins, hides, horns, hoofs, or other part of any
animals,, or of hay, straw, fodder, or other articles likely to
propagate infection ; and also for the purposes of purifying
any yard, stable, outhouse, or other place, or any waggons,
carts, carriages, or other vehicles ; and also for the purpose
of directing how any animals dying in a diseased state, or
any animals, parts of animals, or other things seized uuder
the provisions of this act aro to be disposed of ; and also
for the purpose of causing no'tices to be given of the ap-
pearance of any disorder among sheep, cattle, or other
animals, and to make any other orders or regulations for
the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of the said
act, and again to revoke, alter, or vary any such orders or
regulations ; and that all provisions for any of the pur-
poses aforesaid in any such order or orders contained
shall have the like force and effect as if the same had
been inserted in the same act ; and that all persons offend-
ing against the said act shall for each and every offence
forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £2O, or such
smaller sum as the said Lords or others of her Majesty's
Privy Council may in any case by such order direct :
" And whereas an order was made in pursuance of the
authority of the said Acts on the 24th of July, 1865, by the
Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, applicable
to the city of London and to the metropolitan police dis-
trict, containing certain provisions for the purpose of pre-
venting the spreading of a certain disorder, of which the
nature was at the time of the making of the said order un-
certain, but which has since been ascertained to be of a
typhoid nature, and is commonly designated as the cattle
plague,' and which may be recognised by the following
symptoms :
" Great depression of the vital powers, frequent shiver-
ing, staggering gait, cold extremities, quick and short
breathing, drooping head, reddened eyes, with a discharge
from them, and also from the nostrils, of a mucous nature
raw looking places on the inner side of tit lips and roof of
the mouth, diarrhoea, or dysenteric purging :'
"And whereas inspectors have been appointed in pursu-
ance of the provisions of such order :
"And whereas it is expedient to make further regulations
for the district to which the said order is applicable :
"Now, therefore, tho Lord of her Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers given
by the said recited Act, and the several Acts continuing
the same, as'aforesaid, order as follovis::

" 1. That in this order the word ' animal' shall be inter-
preted to mean any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf.
" 2. Every inspector appointed, or to be appointed under
the provisions of the Order in Council of the 24th of July,
1865, shall have the power of entering upon and inspecting
any premises in or upon which ho has reason to believe
that there is any animal labouring under any such disease,
from time to time, as often as be may think necessary.
"3. Every person within any district for which an in-
spector shall have been appointed as aforesaid, upon whose
premises there shall bo any animal labouring under any
such disorder, shall, as far as practicable, keep such animal
separate and apart from all other animals, and no person
shall, without the licence of such inspector, send to market,
or remove from his premises, any such animal, or any ani-
mal which has been in the same shed or stable, or has been
herded, or bun in contact with any animal labouring under
such disorder.

"4. Every animal within any such district as aforesaid
dying of such disorder, or slaughtered on account thereof,
shall bo buried, if practicable, on the premises where it has
died or been slaughtered, or (if this be not practicable) as
near thereto as may be convenient ; and if such animal be
not buried with its skin, its skin shall bo disinfected in
such manner as the inspector of the district may direct.
" Every person within any such district, on whose
premises there shall be any animal so labouring as afore-
said, shall cleanse and disinfect such premises in such
manner as the inspector of such district shall direct.
" Every person offending against this order shall for
every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding .£2o,which
the justices before whom he or she shall be convicted of such
offence may think fit to impose."
The second order repeats the preamble of the first
order. It goes on to say :
" And whereas since of the making of the said order
the said disorder has appeared in other parts of England,
and it is expedient to extend the provisions of the said or-
der to the remaining parts of England and Wales, and to
make further regulations for. the purpose aforesaid for the
last-mentioned parts of the United Kingdom :
" Now therefore the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers given
by the said recited acts, and by the several acts continuing
the same as aforesaid, order as follows :

" 1. That this order shall extend to all the parts of Eng-
land and Wales not comprised in the said recited order.
" 2. That in this order the word ' animal' shall be inter-
preted to mean any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf.
" 3. If at the date of the publication of this order in the
London Gazette there shall be any animal labouring under
any such disorder in tho possession or custody of any cow-
keeper, dairyman or dairywoman, or of any milkman or
wilkwoman, or vendor or purveyor of milk, or of any dealer
in cattle, or farmer, or person in possession of cattle, what-
soever, within tfiose ports of the United Kingdom to which
this order refers, or if at any time hereafter, while this pre-
sent order shall continue in force and unrevoked, any ani-
mal, being in the possession or custody of any such person