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iii. rural husbandry.
of the other 8. The provincial veterinary surgeons have the superintendence of
the veterinary service, each in his own district. The duties of the provincial
veterinary surgeons are given in the above-mentioned instructions for veterinary
surgeons. The provincial veterinary surgeons are paid by the State. The
salary amounts to 1 5-00 kronor per annum, and the service-pay to 1 000
kronor per annum. After 5 years’ service, the salary can be increased by 500
kronor, and after 10 years’ by an additional 500 kronor. The pension of a
provincial veterinary surgeon amounts to 2 500 kronor per annum and begins
on his reaching 65 years of age and completing 25 years of service.
In Sweden there are also 182 district veterinary surgeon districts, to which
the State, in accordance with the decision of the Riksdag of 1912, contributes
600 kronor per annum towards the remuneration of each district veterinary
surgeon, in addition to 200 kronor increase after the completion of 5 years’
service. This is given on condition that the respective County Councils engage
to pay the district veterinary surgeons not less than 1 200 kronor a 5rear, with
an extra 200 kronor per annum to those that have completed the necessary term
of service.
In a great number of towns there are also appointed one or more town
veterinary surgeons, whose principal task is to inspect meat offered for sale and
to see that the statute of public health are observed in such matters as concern
the keeping of cattle in towns, etc. Among the town veterinary surgeons may
also be reckoned the veterinary directors and the other veterinary officials at
the public slaughter-houses and at the public cattle-markets.
For the purpose of inspecting the health of the cattle imported into Sweden,
the Royal Medical Board has appointed quarantine veterinary surgeons, stationed
at a number of ports where there exist quarantine sheds for cattle. The export
inspection veterinary surgeons appointed by the same authority have the task of
seeing that no cattle which are diseased or otherwise unfit for export from
Sweden are allowed to leave the country.
In addition to these officials, there are 6 civil veterinary stipendiaries,
appointed by the Royal’ Medical Board, whose task it is to assist that body in
combating any cattle-disease that may happen to break out. The total number of
veterinary surgeons in Sweden at the close of 1914 amounted to 428.
The principal tasks of the State Veterinary Service are:
1) To combat infectious cattle-diseases — with the exception of tuberculosis —
in Sweden. The legal measures that can be taken in this respect are regulated
principally by the Royal Ordinance of December 9, 1898 — with the alterations
made therein by the Royal Proclamations dated March 1, 1903, and November
3, 1906 —; the Royal Proclamation of November 3, 1906, respecting
swine-fever, swine-plague, and swine-ersysipelas, and that of September 28, 1906,
respecting the measures to be taken against chicken-plague and chicken-cholera.
2) To combat cattle-tuberculosis. The present existing struggle against
cattle-tuberculosis in Sweden dates from the beginning of the "nineties", or the time
when Koch’s tuberculine was proved to be a reliable means of discovering this
disease at its very onset. Since that time, an energetic and clear-sighted struggle
for the eradication of this plague of the farm-yard has been carried on in
Sweden. This work has principally been based on the detection of the existence of
the disease, this being done by means of the so-called tuberculine tests, but
steps have also been taken to protect the growing generations of cattle from
infection. This struggle has been supported by State grants, which, for the year
1913, were estimated to amount to 90 000 kronor; and, as stated above, it has
been directed by the Board of Agriculture.
The Royal Medical Board, in accordance with the Royal Ordinance of May 1,
1903, has been entrusted with the task of superintending the struggle against
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