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4. The complete isolation of all domestic animals which have 

 been in contact with the diseased pigs, and in all cases of sheep and 

 rabbits, the destruction of the sick when this shall be deemed neces- 

 sary. 



5. When all the pigs in an infected herd have not been de- 

 stroyed, the remainder should be placed upon an official register, 

 and subjected to daily inspection by the veterinary inspector, so 

 that the sick may be removed and killed on the first indication of 

 disease. 



6. Sheep and rabbits which have been in contact with diseased 

 hogs should be treated likewise, and none should be removed from 

 the flock until after the lapse of a month from the last appearance 

 of disease among them. 



7. All animals and birds, wild or tame, and all persons except 

 those employed in the work, must be carefully excluded from the 

 infected premises, and until the same have been pronounced safe, 

 after careful disinfection, etc. 



8. The losses sustained by owners from the compulsory slaughter 

 of their hogs should be made good by a valuation to be fixed by a 

 competant board of assessors. 



9. Such reimbursement should be forfeited by owners who fail 

 to comply with the law in properly notifying the authorities of the 

 real existence or suspicion of the presence of the pest among their 

 swine. 



10. A register should be kept, in prescribed form, of all hogs 

 kept on farms within a certain radius of infected herds — say one 

 mile — and no removal of such animals should be permitted until 

 the disease had been pronounced at an end, unless by special license 

 from the competent authorities, after the veterinary inspector had 

 pronounced the herd in question to be absolutely free from every 

 suspicion of the disease. 



11. Eailroad and shipping agents of adjoining stations to in- 

 fected districts should be forbidden to ship pigs, excepting by license 

 of the local authorities, until the plague has been pronounced at an 

 end in such districts. 



12. "When infected pigs have been conveyed by rail, boat, or 

 other means of transport, measures should be taken to insure the 

 thorough disinfection of such vehicles of transport, as well as the 

 barns, docks, or yards, or other places into which the diseased ani- 

 mals may have been turned. 



