Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.

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The slaughtered animal shall be dissected (opened and examined) by a Veterinary
Surgeon who shall forward through the High Sheriff to the Government Department
concerned a precise, written report of the nature of the disease and symptoms,
and condition of the dissected animal.
§ 6.
Subject to the below mentioned restrictions, the owner is entitled to compensation
for those animals which by virtue of § 5 shall be slaughtered by order
of the Public Authorities. For animals which, on dissection, do not exhibit
traces of the diseases mentioned in § 5, compensation will be made to the full
amount awarded in the manner heretofore prescribed. The compensation to be
awarded to animals which, on dissection, have been found to be attacked by
cattle plague or pleuro-pneumonia, is fixed at 2/3rds, and for horses, which, on
dissection were found to be suffering from glanders (as mentioned in § 2), to
V2 the amount of the valuation made in the manner heretofore prescribed.
Provided the owner has, by the importation of infected animals from abroad, or
by non observance of the regulations for the prevention of disease, brought the
injury on himself', he shall not be awarded any compensation for the slaughtered
animals. The right to compensation for horses suffering from glanders is,
furthermore, contingent upon proof being shown that they have lived for at least
6 months within the frontiers of the land.
-§ 7 .
Animals found to be suffering from hydrophobia (Rabies) must be killed.
Dogs or eats which have been bitten by any animal suffering from hydrophobia
shall also be destroyed. Every other animal must, in similar instances as
determined by § 4 for all animals suspected of being attacked by the disease,
be kept securely isolated and confined. The confinement of bitten animals
shall be for a period of at least 6 months The High Sheriff may, by public
notice in each town or district where, or in the neighbourhood of which,
hydrophobia appears, order, within a district to be more closely defined by
him, every dog to be either effectively tied up or confined, or furnished with
a muzzle of the description prescribed in the Public Notice. Should the
disease spread to such an extent as to assume an alarming character the
High Sheriff must issue such an order, with an additional decree that no dog
even when provided with a muzzle as prescribed, may be allowed to appear
out, unless held in leash by an adult person. Dogs met with at large, in
defiance of the order, shall be seized by order of the Police and, according to
the regulation in the Public Notice, be destroyed, either at once, or after a
term of grace of 3 days, provided they are not redeemed . by the owner on
payment of the cost of their keep and detention. The costs of the seizure,
keep, and destruction of dogs shall be paid by the county, borough or town
concerned, provided these have each their own local boards. No compensation
is granted fo,v animals killed in accordance with the provisions of this §.
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