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4. On receipt of such report the veterinarian should visit the locality 
and make a careful investigation into the nature of the disease, using 
the clinical thermometer and making post-mortem examinations. 
5. if the contagious fever is indicated the whole herd should be 
slaughtered, the animals deeply buried, the place thoroughly disin- 
fected, and no more hogs allowed there till after a succeeding winter. . ' 
6: When the disease. exists to any considerable extent in a locality, 
those owning hogs in adjoining townships or even counties, according 
-. to the extent of the outbreak, should be required to keep them in small 
inclosures or pens, at a distance from roads or streams of water coming 
from infected localities, This is necessary to lessen the danger of in- 
fection and to allow more thorough disinfection in ease the disease ap- 
pears. 
7. A certain compensation should be allowed for slaughtered ani- 
mals—say 25 per cent. on a fair valuation for those plainly sick, 50 per 
cent. for those which simply show a rise of temperature above 10349 Ee 
and full value for the healthy ones. 
8. In case a hog-owner fails to comply with above regulations a pen- 
alty might be fixed, or at least such a person should receive no compen- 
sation for slaughtered animals, 
These are the regulations that seem to me most necessary, but there. 
may undoubtedly be circumstances in which these may be advantageously 
modified. Thus in case of a herd of several hundred animals, in which 
but few are affected and the remainder show a healthy temperature, it 
might be advisable to simply kill and bury the affected ones, to thoroughly 
disinfect the premises and to kill others as soon as a high temperature 
becomes apparent. Or in case all were killed the meat of the healthy 
ones might be preserved and marketed. It is also possible that, through 
negligence in making reports or an improper diagnosis of the disease, 
such a large territory may become infected as to “Snake it advisable to 
establish a sanitary cordon, isolating the locality as much as possible; 
and leave the disease to run its natural course. In such eases no live 
~ hogs should be allowed to leave the infected section till after a succeed- 
ing winter, nor any carcasses of hogs till after freezing weather ; people 
living within this “district should be prohibited from going near swine 
outside of it, nor should drovers or others from outside be allowed to 
visit the infected swine. All dead animals should be promptly and 
deeply buried, and disinfectants freely used. All hogs in such district, 
and for twenty miles distance from it in all directions, should be kept im ' 
small inclosures at a distance from roads, in order to lessen the chances 
of extension and to allow thorough disinfection. 
If such regulations are thoroughly carried out there can be no doubt 
that the ravages of the disease will be greatly diminished at once, and 
in a few years many States which now suffer terribly from it will be 
completely exempt; while in those where it now proves most disastrous 
there is reason to believe it would never cause serious losses. Sanitary 
regulations similar to these are the only means that have ever been suc- 
cessful in combating the contagious diseases of animals, and while we 
would not be understood as discouraging the search for specific remedies 
we cannot disguise our opinion that itis ‘extremely irrational and absurd 
to delay action i in this disease till such specific shall have been discovered ; 
in other words to neglect those measures which have alone succeeded and 
cling to those which have always failed. 
Respectfully submitted. 
. D. HK. SALMON, V. 8. 
SWANNANOA, N. ©., November 15, 1878. 
