28 REPORT OF THE BUKEAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



All railroads doing business in a county infected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia 

 shall cause their stock-yards, pens, and stock-cars to be cleansed and disinfected in 

 such manner as may be directed by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 and under the supervision of said inspector. 



Given at the capitol in the city of Albany, this 10th day of August, in the year of 

 our Lord 1887. 



[L. s.] DAVID B. HILL. 



By the governor : 



WILLIAM G. RICE, 



Private Secretary. 



[Order.] 



STATE OF NEW YORK, Executive Chamber : 



In pursuance of the authority vested in me as governor of the State of New York 

 by chapter 134 of the laws of 1878, entitled "An act in relation to infectious and 

 contagious diseases of animals," I do hereby prescribe the following supplemental 

 regulations for the suppression of contagious diseases among domestic animals and 

 the prevention of the spread of the same ' 



Whenever the chief inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall have given 

 notice as required by executive order of August 10, 1887, of the existence of con- 

 tagious pleuro-pneumonia, or of the existence of the contagion of that disease, in any 

 county of this State, it shall thereafter be lawful for said chief inspector, in his dis- 

 cretion, to cause all neat cattle in such county to be numbered, tagged, and registered, 

 and all persons are hereby prohibited, after notice given as aforesaid, from moving 

 any such cattle, or allowing any such cattle to stray from any place or premises to 

 any other place or premises, and from allowing any such cattle to be upon any high- 

 way or upon any uninclosed land without a permit duly issued and signed by an in- 

 spector of the said Bureau, and from and after notice given as aforesaid all persons 

 keeping cattle in any such county are hereby required to give immediate notice to 

 an inspector of the said Bureau of the sickness or death of any cattle belonging to 

 them or in their possession, and also of all births that may occur in their herds and 

 of all other additions thereto, and from and after notice given as aforesaid all per- 

 sons are hereby prohibited from offering or receiving within any such county any 

 cattle for transportation or removal in any manner whatever, and from transporting 

 any cattle in any manner, whether from any place in such county to another place 

 within the county or to a place out of the county, without a special permit duly 

 issued and signed by an inspector of the said Bureau. 



Given at the capitol in the city of Albany, this 8th day of December, in the year 

 of our Lord 1887. 



[L. s.] DAVID B. HILL. 



By the governor : 



WILLIAM G. RICE, 



Private Secretary. 



A force was immediately organized in the counties of Westchester, 

 New York, Richmond, Kings, and Queens sufficiently large to tag and 

 register all bovine animals in these counties. The cattle were all 

 quarantined and all movement prohibited unless a permit was first 

 obtained from an inspector of this Department. This system soon 

 worked smoothly, and within a few weeks the whole district was 

 under thorough supervision. 



From January ( 1 to December 31, 1887, there were inspected in New 

 York 1,511 herds of cattle, containing 25,122 animals. Post-mortem, 

 examinations were made upon 1,347 animals, and of these 447 were 

 found to be affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The total number of 

 animals slaughtered in New York because affected with this disease 

 was 266, and the number slaughtered for exposure was 736, making 

 a total of 1,002 head. The owners received from the Department as 

 compensation for the diseased animals $6,317.25, an average of $23.75 



