Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.
Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.
Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.
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The following Circular, dated 12th November, 1890 has been issued by the<br />
H<strong>om</strong>e Department.<br />
According to § 1 of the Law of the 20th May, 1882, concerning measures<br />
to be adopted in respect to malignant contagious diseases amongst d<strong>om</strong>estic<br />
aMmals, every qualified Veterinary Surgeon who makes use of his right to practice<br />
as such, shall immediately report to the Authorities all cases of malignant<br />
contagious disease amongst those doniestic animals which may be the objects<br />
of his examination or treatment together with in<strong>for</strong>mation as to what measures<br />
have been adopted or prescribed to counteract the disease and prevent the spread<br />
of infection.<br />
The diseases amongst d<strong>om</strong>estic animals which are, at present, subject, to the<br />
special observation of the Public Authorities, and concerning which such reports<br />
are to be made, are<br />
Anthrax, typhus, foot-and-mouth disease, and rabies in all d<strong>om</strong>estic<br />
animals,<br />
Cat tle pl a gu e amongst cattle and other ruminants,<br />
Pleuro-pneumonia and malignant catarrhal-fever amongst cattle,<br />
«Bråsot» («blue sickness») foot rot,sheep-pox and scab in sheep,<br />
Glanders and farcy in the horse,<br />
Red disease and swine-fever in swine.<br />
As it is however of the greatest importance to the central Veterinary Board<br />
to obtain in<strong>for</strong>mation of the outbreak of malignant, contagious disease amongst<br />
d<strong>om</strong>estic animals at the earliest possible m<strong>om</strong>ent, and, at all times, reports of<br />
the progress of the disease and its extension, the Department requests that the<br />
Veterinary Surgeons settled within the official district of the High Sheriff, shall<br />
send in reports — besides those to the Authorities — direct to the Chief Surgeon<br />
of the Civil Veterinary Department concerning ev er y case of the above<br />
named diseases that may occur The report ought to contain all the in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
required by the enclosed new Schedule No. 2. Similar reports ought also,<br />
in the mentioned circumstances, to be <strong>for</strong>warded to the Chief Surgeon fr<strong>om</strong> the<br />
Chief C<strong>om</strong>missioners of Police, and District Head constables when they have<br />
received such reports as are mentioned in § 4 of the above mentioned Law,