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in the centers of greatest infection. In most places sub-offices of the 

 Federal Government and the State Livestock Sanitary Board were 

 in the same building. 



The Federal Government divided the State into three districts. 

 G. E. Totten, at Pittsburgh, had charge of their work in the western 

 part of the State; the central portion was in charge of N. L. Town- 

 send, at Lancaster, while Charles A. Schaufler directed the work in 

 southeastern Pennsylvania from his Philadelphia office. 



The men in charge for the State and Federal Governments at the 

 branch offices were as follows: 



Allegheny, Beaver and Westmoreland counties and Western Penn- 

 sylvania : P. K. Jones, Union Stockyards, Pittsburgh, for S. L. S. B. 

 G. E. Totten, Union Stockyards, Pittsburgh, for B. A. I. 



Lancaster and Lebanon counties: Joseph Johnson, Woolworth 

 Building, Lancaster, for S. L. S. B. N. L. Townsend, Woolworth 

 Building, Lancaster, for B. A. I. 



York and Adams counties: G. M. Graybill, Spring Grove, for S. 

 L. S. B. F. W. Ainsworth, Spring Grove, for B. A. I. 



Delaware and Chester counties: D. E. Hickman, West Chester, 

 for S. L. S. B. C. C. Cole, West Chester, for B. A. I. 



Montgomery and Bucks counties: H. W. Turner, Norristown, for 

 S. L. S. B. W. L. Hiatt, Norristown, for B. A. I. 



Berks and Schuvlkill counties: O. G. Noack, Beading, for S. L. 

 S. B. H. W. Hawiey, Reading, for B. A. I. 



Franklin county: A. O. Cawley, Greencastle, for S. L. S. B. 



Montour, Columbia, and Lycoming counties: H. R. Church, Wil- 

 liamsport, for S. L. S. B. 



Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties: Fred Stehle, Jr., Al- 

 lentown, for S. L. S. B. A. C. Stever, Allentown, for B. A. I. 



Philadelphia county: Carl W. Gay, Philadelphia, for S. L. S. B. 

 E. C. Dingley, Philadelphia, for B. A. I. 



Cumberland, Dauphin and all other counties : Harrisburg office. 



The practical work in tracing diseased herds, issuing permits, de- 

 stroying and burying cattle, appraising, etc., was done by men well 

 trained in handling foot-and-mouth disease. Nearly all had ].ad 

 practical experience" in the 1908 outbreak and were familiar witli all 

 details of the work. The Federal Government and the State Live- 

 stock Sanitary Board had about sixty professional assistants each, 

 aside from day laborers, the stenograpliical and clerical h- Ip neces- 

 sary to take care of the work. The Harrisburg office a^.d various 

 branch offices were open from seven o'clock in the morning until 

 midnight week days and Sundays for about three months. It kept 

 one? person in eacli office busy nearly all the time answering the tele- 

 phone. At one time during the height of tlie outbreak, the Harrisburg 

 office was in .'?lephone communication with Chicago, East St. Louis, 

 and Louisville, Kentucky, within two hours. 



Most pleasant relations existed between the Federal and State 

 forces throughout the work of exterrainntion and each had access to 

 the others' records and the work was divided in such a way that very 

 few conflicts were encountered. No particular work was assigned to 

 either, but each did whatever was necessary to attain most speedy 



