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must be buried intact and slashed after it had been put into the
grave in order to prevent the subsequent digging up of the carcase.
In his opinion if all animals that die suddenly were buried merely
on suspicion of anthrax, their owners would be subjected to hard-
ship. On the other hand there were difficulties with regard to the
disposal of the carcase. It was stated in the Rules that if the carcase
could not be buried it must be burnt and it often happened in the
rains that water covered the ground to a depth of 3 feet or so,
so that carcases could not be buried and in such conditions it was
usually impossible to burn the animals.

    Mr. MacGregor stated that he remembered that while he went
through his post-graduate course, anthrax organisms disappeared
within a few days from the bodies of guinea-pigs that had succumbed
after experimental infection with anthrax. He wondered whether
it would be possible to dispose of an animal effectively by blocking
up the natural orifices and protecting it against wild animals
so that the organism might in this manner disappear from the
carcase.

    Mr. Cameron further stated that the Contagious Diseases Act
in England as amended by the Act of 1894 might well be taken
as the model of an Act to deal with animal diseases in India, and
he thought that Local Governments might be allowed to make
their own orders under it. In Burma the export trade in hides
was large and the owner of an animal was liable to a fine of Rs. 5
only if it was discovered that the hide had been removed from an
animal that had succumbed to a contagious disease. He con-
sidered that a fine of this magnitude was far too low. It was his
experience that when a large epizootic occurred in any locality,
the number of hides that came from this locality was very large.
The deaths in such an outbreak might be due to rinderpest, or
anthrax, or other contagious disease, and as the fine was so small
and the chances of detection almost infinitely small it was worth
the owner's while to run the risk of being fined Rs. 5 only consi-
dering that he might easily sell half a dozen hides without detection.
The hide firms always insisted that they had disinfected the hides
and they were free from anthrax, but no fine would divulge the
method of disinfection nor could they adduce proof that the hides
in question were free from disease.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson stated that in view of the
resolution passed by the committee he had previously dealt with,
a certificate would only be taken and recognized as effective in the
case of wool, if the process of disinfection adopted had been
approved by a special committee to be appointed under Interna-
tional Agreement.