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With this information before them the members of the State 

 Live Stock Sanitary Commission were enabled to prepare maps 

 showing the location of each herd of swine in the county, with the 

 number of hogs on the premises. They were also able to locate on 

 these maps the exact location of all infected farms, and outline 

 a plan for controlling the disease in these infected areas and prevent 

 its spread into new territory. 



Quarantine Rules. — With a view to the prevention of in- 

 troduction of new sources of infection from outside the county, 

 and also to prevent scattering of the disease within the county, 

 certain quarantine regulations were drawn up and put in 

 force. 



As a prehminary move, it was required that all public stock- 

 yards in the county be disinfected. Driving or unloading of swine 

 into these disinfected yards was then absolutely forbidden except 

 by special permit. Such permits would be issued only in cases 

 where the swine were free from disease and had not been exposed 

 to the infection. Railroad companies owning these yards were 

 also notified of the nature of these quarantine regulations applying 

 to stock-yards, and a quarantine notice was prominently posted in 

 all pubUc stock-yards. 



By this means it is hoped to free all public stock-yards from 

 cholera infection and to keep them free from the same. From what 

 we have already learned regarding the danger of these infected 

 yards as a source of infection, and the examples of outbreaks aris- 

 ing from this source which we have seen, we can appreciate the 

 great forward step that will have been accompKshed when this 

 has been thoroughly carried out. 



Shipment of Swine Into County. — In order to prevent the 

 carrying of cholera into the county from adjoining infected terri- 

 tory the bringing of any swine into Fayette County was absolutely 

 forbidden, except under special permit. This permit was issued 

 only for swine coming from localities that are known to be free from 

 cholera infection, as shown by health certificates made out by 

 properly authorized veterinary inspectors. All public highways 

 along the county border, leading into or out of the county, were 

 properly posted with the following warning notice, in order that 

 anyone bringing swine over the line without permission might be 



