GTS ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



The 8ECRETAKY: I see tliat Dr. Fearsou is in the audience and 

 I would ask him whether he has a report to submit to the Board? 



DR. PEARSON: I have uo prepared report to make. 



The SECRETARY: You might tell us something about your line 

 of work on the farm. 



DR. PEARSON. Mr Chairman and Gentlemen: Since our last 

 annual meeting the Legislature has done something in the way of 

 legislation for the State Live Stock Sanitarv Board and the two 

 pieces of legislation that are regarded of the most importance are 

 first, a law with reference to rabies and the quarantine of dogs; and 

 second, an appropriation for the suppression of tuberculosis in cat- 

 tle. The law w'ith reference to dogs was one which was badly needed. 

 The State Live Stock Sanitary Board was combating with this ques- 

 easo without sufficient laws but, under the new law, it is now possi- 

 ble to quarantine dogs, where the rabies exist, and enforcing it. 

 Under the old law the quarantine could be raised and the only thing 

 that could be done was to take the dog and put him in jail and he 

 could not be destroved, even if found straved or without an owner, 

 because the owner might turn up afterwards and claim damages for 

 his dog. 



Under the present law the quarantine is proclaimed in a given 

 district and the quarantine is advertised in a regular manner so 

 that all dogs running at large, being affected with rabies, may be 

 shot without any damage being incurred by the man who destroys 

 them. The quarantine is not proclaimed unless it is necessary. 

 Now and then a dog runs through a district and bites other dogs 

 and thus it has been transmitted to horses and cattle. Secretary 

 Critchfield has a verv sad case in his countv, where a voung bov 

 was bitten in his neighborhood by a stray dog. 



The SECRETARY^: The dog was killed on my own farm. 



DR. PEARSON: It is very interesting to know that this par- 

 ticular piece of legislation is acting well and serving a very useful 

 purpose. Where the quarantine is proclaimed and dogs are kept 

 in the district for a time, and they go mad, they have no chance to 

 go away and spread the disease further, and, therefore, at the out- 

 break it is nipped in the bud and its propagation ceases. Just 

 now, or to-day, a quarantine has been proclaimed in part of Somer- 

 set county, where the mad dog was at large and there, unquestion- 

 ably, a number of dogs that have not been located an<l cannot be 

 located, have been bitten. 



The SECRETARY: Thei-e is a i>etition, signed very numerously 

 by the people residing in that neighborhood, perhaps you have not 

 seen it, and it states thai thcic ai-e a number of dogs known to 

 have been bitten. 



