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kept in 'such a way as to prevent the disease from spreading from 

 them. Section 10550 authorizes the quarantining of any infected 

 premises, such as stockyards that have been occupied by scaby sheep 

 or cattle, pens or stalls by horses affected with glanders, or pastures 

 infested with fever ticks. Ihis section also authorizes the veterin- 

 arian to prescribe the mode of disinfection of such infected premises, 

 and the disinfection must be thoroughly done before such premises 

 mav be used in connection with healthy stock. Section 1055 1 au- 

 thorizes the Governor to issue a proclamation quarantining against 

 any other state or territory in which any dangerous contagious disease 

 of live stock is known to exist. Section 10552 authorizes the Gov- 

 ernor to proclaim any municipality m this State under quarantine, and 

 to prescribe rules under which stock may be removed from sucl^ 

 locality. Section 2327 requires all hogs that die of a spreading disease 

 to be burned or buried by the owner within 24 hours. Section 2322 

 forbids the importation, driving upon public highways, hitching or 

 watering at a public place, selling or offering for sale any horses 

 affected with glanders or nasal gleet. The latter term means any 

 snotty discharge from the nose from whatever cause. Section 2330 

 forbids the importation into the State of any scaby sheep, and also 

 prescribes against driving them on the public highway, selling or 

 offering them for sale. Section 1166 requires railroad companies to 

 furnish shippers of live stock cars that have been properly cleaned. 

 Section 1167 requires the railroad companies to pay shippers for loss 

 of live stock which die of contagious disease by reason of the non- 

 compliance with section 1166. 



In addition to the above laws and some oT minor importance that 

 we already have we need to have passed as soon as possible a bill to 

 authorize the controlling of dogs capable of spreading rabies, and 

 another to require a standard of qualification on the part of those 

 practicing veterinary surgery. 



Section 10547 of the present statutes uses tTie word "live stock/' 

 and I am advised that dogs are not considered by the courts to be 

 live stock, therefore, it would not be legal to quarantine a dog, even 

 after he had developed rabies, much less quarantine the dogs through 

 a neighborhood which have fought with and been bitten by a rabid 

 dog. A law ought to be passed, and the sooner the better, authoriz- 

 ing the State Veterinarian or his deputies or some local officer to 

 place in quarantine, for at least two years, all dogs that have had any 

 chance whatever to be bitten by a rabid dog. Rabies is gradually be- 

 coming more common in the State of Missouri, and it is high time the 



