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where the animal was in quarantine to the others, it would be 

 safe enough to keep quarantined animals in the same barn. 

 I would say, however, that if you have a separate building 

 there is an added risk of fire and loss by lightning. If you 

 have buildings scattered about the farm you are more liable to 

 have buildings destroyed by fire and lightning. 



Prof. Shaw. May I ask the gentleman if the risk would 

 not be less by keeping the infected animals in separate build- 

 ings than in the same building with the other animals? 



I\Ir. AvERiLL. There would be less risk in keeping them 

 in neighboring buildings. I am free tO' admit that if an ani- 

 mal was kept in a separate building and was cared for by a 

 separate attendant there would be far less risk of further in- 

 fection and secondary cases. We have had and are having 

 at the present time scarlet fever in my own town. The school 

 is closed. It broke out in three families. In each of these 

 families there were not less than seven children. Now if those 

 patients were quarantined in the same building with those 

 children, in two out of three cases I am sure there would be no 

 secondary cases. It looks to me, Mr. President, that we do 

 not need, in treating cases of contagious disease among cattle, 

 to go to that extent, of course, the foot and mouth disease ex- 

 cepted. If scarlet fever patients can be isolated in a house 

 where there are six or seven other children I think that the 

 same precaution observed in the treatment of animals would 

 undoubtedly have a similar efifect. 



Prof. Shaw. I would like to ask the gentleman's opinion 

 about this : Take a tuberculous cow, for instance, kept in 

 the same building with cows that are not tuberculous, and in 

 the same part of the building, only in a box stall, but not a tall 

 box stall, or where the partition does not go up to the ceiling. 

 I am asking about this for this reason. I was asked to visit 

 the station at Geneva in the summer. I went there for in- 

 formation about tuberculosis. They had been conducting 

 some experiments, and they took me to a stable where they 



