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and a fully itemized bill of the expense incurred shall be drawn up 

 b}' the agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, the board of 

 health, or the board of township auditors, and forwarded as a voucher 

 to the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. If the voucher is approved 

 by said board, it shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses 

 of said board are paid: Provided, however, That no charge shall be 

 paid of more than ten dollars for the destruction of a single carcass 

 of a horse, mule, cow, bull, or ox; nor more than three dollars for the 

 destruction of a single carcass of a colt, calf, sheep, hog, or dog. 



"Section 5. The cost of the destruction of the carcass or carcasses, 

 as hereinbefore provided, shall constitute a lien on the property of 

 the owner or owners of the animals at the time of their death; and it 

 shall be the duty of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to attempt 

 to recover, and if possible to recover, by due process of law, from said 

 owner or owners for amounts expended by it in disposing of or de- 

 stroying the carcasses of their animals, in the enforcement of this 

 act.'' 



Approved— The 2d day of May, A. D. 1001. 



By this law it is required that the carcasses of animals dead of 

 anthrax shall be disposed of in some safe way. It is highly impor- 

 tant that this shall be done with great thoroughness in every in- 

 stance. The germs of anthrax are present in vast numbers in every 

 drop of blood of animals dead of this disease. As the carcass putre- 

 fies and becomes part of the earth, and as fragments of it are spread 

 by birds, by animals or by water or wind, these germs are scattered. 

 They have, through their spores, the most remarkable vitality. 

 They are capable of living in the soil and maintaining their power to 

 produce disease for as long as seven or eight years. Hence, the mani- 

 fest importance of immediately burning or deeply burying anthrax 

 carcasses and of well disinfecting the places contaminated by them. 



As an instance of the importance of early diagnosis, and to illus- 

 trate the character of the operations against anthrax, I attach a re- 

 port on this subject: 



"September 1st, 1901. 

 "Dr. Leonard Pearson, State Veterinarian: 



"Sir: I visited the farm of Mr. H. M. Chilson, four miles south of 

 Forksville, on August 2()th, with the expectation of obtaining speci- 

 mens for laboratory research, thinking that the disease affecting his 

 cattle was the same as appeared in Carbon and other counties during 

 the past year. 



"When I arrived I found no cattle sick and none had died within the 

 past two days. Mr. Chilson was sick in bed and Dr. B. E. Gamble, 

 the attending physician, told me he believed he was suffering from 



