Provided always that such food and medicines shall be such as the keeper of the hospital-pound may approve or direct.

Power to destroy animals The keeper of the hospital-pound, or other person thereto authorized by the Magistrate of the district, [or, in the City of Madras,] [the Commissioner of the Corporation,] shall be empowered to destroy any animal either before or after it has been impounded as aforesaid, whenever it shall appear to him to be necessary to prevent the spread of contagion or infection. When any animal shall have been so destroyed, or shall die whilst in charge of the keeper of the hospital-pound, it shall be the duty of the said keeper to have the carcass of the said animal buried at least six feet below the surface of the ground, and any cost incurred in so doing shall be met from the cattle-pound fund.