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tions, and all the various expenses incident to a work of this char- 

 acter. 



In New York there has been a market for the carcasses of exposed 

 animals, and therefore the compensation paid for such animals was 

 less than for the diseased ones. In New Jersey the law is such that 

 it is, as a rule, impracticable to utilize the carcasses of exposed cattle, 

 and hence the average compensation for these has been greater than 

 for the diseased ones. Taking these variable conditions into consid- 

 eration, it will be observed that the various items of expenditure 

 correspond quite closely in the different States. 



WORK IN NEW JERSEY. 



The work progressed steadily in New Jersey during the year 1887, 

 and the country districts were cleared from the contagion wherever 

 it was discovered. A more thickly settled district in Hudson 

 County, and particularly Jersey City and vicinity, was known to be 

 extensively infected but cotild not be freed from the plague owing 

 to the complete lack of quarantine restrictions bearing upon the dis- 

 trict as a whole. 



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

 Jersey 1,428 herds of cattle, containing 16,461 animals. Post-mortem 

 examinations were made on the carcasses of 248 animals, of which 

 113 were found affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The total number 

 of animals slaughtered in New Jersey because affected with this dis- 

 ease was 94, and the number slaughtered for exposure was 117, mak- 

 ing a total of 211. The owners received from the Department as 

 compensation for the diseased animals $2,275, an average of $24.20 

 per head; and for the exposed animals $3,216, an average of $27.48 

 per head. 



The total expenses in New Jersey for the suppression of pleuro- 

 pneumonia have been, to December 31, 1887, $12,146.03. Of this 

 sum $5,491 was paid as compensation for slaughtered cattle. The 

 miscellaneous expenses were $199.33; the traveling expenses, $1,813.43, 

 and the salaries, $4,642.27. The amount paid for cattle was to all 

 other expenses as 1 to 1.2. 



Early in 1888 regulations were perfected by co-operation with the 

 State board of health for quarantining Hudson County, and main- 

 taining complete control of the movement of cattle in that county. 

 A force sufficient for the purpose was organized, and since that 

 time the same regulations have been enforced there as in Maryland 

 and New York. The county, owing to its proximity to New York, 

 and the fact that its milch cows were to a large degree purchased in 

 the New York market, had long been thoroughly infected. 



The enforcement of the regulations in New Jersey, as in other 

 States, has been followed by very gratifying results. There have 

 been a number of outbreaks in the interior, but' these in all cases 

 have been promptly suppressed. By far the greater part of the work 

 has been performed in Hudson County, which is now, so far as known, 

 the only infected center. 



From January 1 to November 30, 1888, there were inspected in New 

 Jersey 8,018 herds, containing 72,095 head of cattle. Of this number 

 20,413 were re-examined by deputies, in addition to the professional 

 inspections, and 13,318 were tagged with numbers and registered upon 

 the books of the Bureau. 



There were 210 new herds found affected with pleuro-pneumonia 



