No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 



349 



Other placards were sent out for inspectors of animals to 

 post, forbidding auction or public sales of neat cattle, sheep, 

 other ruminants or swine in the counties of Essex, Middle- 

 sex, Sufiblk, Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol or Worcester, un- 

 less the person wishing to hold such sale had a permit from 

 the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



Placards were also sent out to be tacked up in conspicu- 

 ous places in towns infected with foot and mouth disease, 

 forbidding all persons to drive or transport any neat cattle, 

 sheep, other ruminants or swine over any public highway 

 in such towns without a permit signed by the Chief of the 

 Cattle Bureau, or his authorized representative ; or to turn 

 out any such animals on any unfenced lands until such time 

 as it is declared by the Chief of the Cattle Bureau to be 

 safe for the cattle traffic to be resumed. 



All this means a great deal of work ; but it can be seen 

 that, after taking all these measures, everything was pre- 

 pared to proceed with the more active work of eradication. 



Within a few days of the discovery of foot and mouth dis- 

 ease in Dedham, quarantines on infected herds commenced 

 to pour in from difierent directions. As soon as the disease 

 was found in a town, placards already referred to were sent 

 to the inspector of animals to tack up, prohibiting the move- 

 ment of cloven-footed animals in the public highways, or 

 turning the same upon any unfenced land. 



The following is a list of towns declared to be infected 

 which Avere placarded in this Avay, giving the dates when 

 the placards were sent to the inspectors of animals : — 



Acton, 



Attleborough, 



Andover, 



Arlington, 



Billerica, 



Boxborougli, 



Bridgewater, 



Braintree, 



Concord, . 



Chelmsford, 



Chelsea, . 



Carlisle, 



Dedham, . 



Dover, 

 Everett, . 

 Framingham, 

 Grafton, . 

 Harvard, 

 Hudson, . 

 Hatfield, . 

 Lincoln, . 

 Littleton, 

 Lawrence, 

 Maynard, 

 Marlborough, 

 Methuen, 



Dec. 29. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 12. 

 Dec. 10. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 23. 

 Dec. 8. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 23. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 8. 

 Dec. 6. 



