TREATMENT OF CHOLERA 285 



Among the states which have shown particular interest in the 

 eradication of hog-cholera during the past year is that of Ohio. 

 This state is very fortunate in having two of the most prominent 

 advocates of the serum treatment of cholera in the United States 

 associated with the state university in the persons of Doctors 

 Fischer and Fitzgerald. As a result of the repeated recommenda- 

 tions of the state veterinarian in his annual reports, the General 

 Assembly of the State of Ohio in April, 1913, took up the matter of 

 hog-cholera eradication, and made an appropriation of $20,000 

 for use in the carrying out of an experimental investigation in the 

 control and eradication of hog-cholera. As this amount of money 

 would by no means be sufficient to carry on a state-wide experi- 

 ment, the work was, of necessity, limited to a restricted area of the 

 state. 



Accordingly, arrangements were made to select a county in 

 which cholera outbreaks were especially frequent in occurrence, and 

 in which, at the same time, the support of the farmers and stock- 

 men could be counted upon. After a thorough survey of the most 

 frequently infected area it was decided to carry out this experiment 

 in Fayette County. As an example of the interest displayed by 

 the residents of this county, it is worthy of mention that a petition 

 asking for the establishment of the experiment station in this 

 county was presented to the State Board of Agriculture carrying the 

 signatures of 3714 names out of a total of 5600 voters in the county. 



This is the kind of support that must be given to this movement 

 in every locahty if the work is to be a success. Successful work 

 along sanitary lines can only be accompHshed when the state or 

 Federal authorities charged with the carrying on of the work have 

 the hearty support and co-operation of the residents of the district, 

 and receive their confidence and intelligent support at every turn. 



In the beginning of a great undertaking like this it is necessary 

 that certain well-laid plans of campaign be formed, and then car- 

 ried out to their successful completion. It was first necessary that 

 the officials entering upon this work gain a thorough knowledge of 

 just what conditions they had to deal with, and, accordingly, the 

 first step in the campaign was a thorough investigation of the 

 conditions which existed in the district in which the work was to be 

 carried out. State inspectors were sent for this purpose into the 



