236 CONTAGIOUS LUNG FEVER OF CATTLE, 



but she must bo left iu constant danger of infection from Pennsylvania and Maryland. 

 So with the other States. The only path of safety is to wage a war of exterminatiou 

 simultaneously in all the infected States ; and should the State legislatures and Con- 

 gress fail to meet the need, they will prove recreant to their trust, and entail a great 

 evil upon this continent. 

 Yours, &c., 



JAMES LAW. 

 Ithaca, N. Y., February 21, 1879. 



In pursuance of the provisions of an act passed by the legislature of 

 New York in the year 1878, entitled "An act in relation to infectious and 

 contagious diseases of animals," on the 12th day of February last Gover- 

 nor Eobinson appointed General Marsena R. Patrick his assistant, and 

 directed him to take active measures for the suppression and extirpation 

 of the disease in Bangs and Queens Counties of that State. The follow- 

 ing instructions were issued to General Patrick by the governor: 



It has been made known to me that the infectious and contagious disease among 

 neat cattle, called pleuro-pneumonia, has been broxight into and exists in various 

 places in the counties of Kings and Queens of this State. You are therefore directed, 

 as such assistant, to prohibit the movement of cattle within said counties, except on 

 license from yourself after skilled examination under your direction. You are also 

 directed to compel all o^vne^^ of cattle, their agents, employes, or servants, and all 

 veterinary surgeons, to rei)ort forthwith to you all cases of disease by them suspected 

 to be contagious. When such notification is received, you are directed to have the 

 cases examined, and to cause all such animals as are found to bo infected with the said 

 disease destroyed and buried with slashed hides. You are directed, further, to quaran- 

 tine all cattle which have been exposed to the infection of said disease, or are located 

 in an infected place ; but you may, in your discretion, permit such animals to be 

 slaiightered on the premises and the carcasses to be disposed of as meat if, vipon ex- 

 amination, they shall be found fit for such use. You will forbid and prevent all per- 

 sons not employed in the care of the cattle there kept from entering any infected 

 premises. You will likewise prevent all animals and fowls from entering siich 

 premises. You will prevent all persons so employed in the care of animals from going 

 into stables, or yards, or premises where cattle are kept, other than those in which 

 they are employed. You will cause the clothing of all persons engaged in the care, 

 slaughter, or rendering of diseased or exposed cattle, or in any employment which 

 brings them in contact with such diseased animals, to be disinfected before they leave 

 the premises where such animals are. You will prevent the manure, forage, and litter 

 upon infected premises from being removed therefrom ; and you will cause such dis- 

 position to be made thereof as will, in your judgment, best prevent the spread of in- 

 fection. You will cause all buildings, yards, and premises in which said disease 

 exists, or has existed, to be thoroughly disinfected. 



You are further directed, whenever the slaughter of diseased or infected animals is 

 found necessary, to certify the value of the animal or animals so slaughtered at the time 

 of slaughter, taking account of their condition and circumstances, and to deliver to 

 their owner or owners, when requested, a duplicate of such certificate. Whenever 

 any OAvner of such cattle, or his agent or servant, has willfully or knowingly withheld, 

 or allowed to l>e withheld, notice of the existence of disease upon his premises or 

 among his cattle, you v/ill not make such certificate. You are further directed to 

 take such measures as you deem necessary to disinfect all cars, or vehicles, or movable 

 articles by which contagion is liable to bo transmitted. You are also to take such 

 measures as will secure a registry of cattle introduced into any premises in which dis- 

 ease has existed, and to keep such cattle under supexvision for the period of three 

 months after the removal of the last diseased animal and the subsequent disinfection 

 of such premises. You are further authorized and empowered to incur such expenses 

 in carrying out the provisions of the foregoing order as may, in your judgment, be 

 necessary, and to see to it that the bills for such expenses bo transmitted to this de- 

 partment only through yourself, after you have examined and aiiproved them, iu 

 writing. 



L. EOBINSON. 



By the governor. 



General Patrick at once established his headquarters at the Brooklyn 

 board of health, and called to his assistance Professor Law and many 

 other eminent veterinarians. Active measures were immediately insti- 

 tuted for a suppression of the disease, which will no doubt be continued 

 with the same energy uutil it is extirpated. 



