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balanced a mixture as could be gotten up. Remember that this 

 preparation is not curative for cholera, and neither is it prevent- 

 ive in the sense that by its use you can neglect every sanitary 

 precaution. However, its use in combination with the use of 

 common sense in regard to feeding, housing, and other possible 

 sources of infection will very much improve the chances of the 

 herd passing through an outbreak of cholera without taking the 



(32) Quarantine Measures. — Establishment of a reasonable 

 quarantine is absolutely necessary if any scientific effort is to be 

 made toward eradication of the disease in America. In no other 

 way can we hope to check the spread of the disease. It is by estab- 

 lishment of quarantine measures that success has crowned the 

 efforts of the medical profession in eradication of acute infectious 

 disease outbreaks in the human family, and the same principles 

 are equally sound in veterinary practice. 



In order to make quarantine regulations of any lasting benefit 

 it is absolutely necessary what we have the support of the entire 

 community in their passage and enforcement. We must each and 

 everyone of us be ready to obey the laws providing for quarantine 

 which may be enacted, and we must make it our duty to see that 

 our neighbor also obeys these laws. 



It is only by such regulations as have been put in force in Fa- 

 yette County, Ohio, and Pettis County, Mo., that we will be able 

 to cope successfully with cholera, and not only prevent its further 

 spread, but also in time completely eradicate the disease, and put 

 the swine industry back on a firm financial footing. It will mean 

 a little inconvenience and a little self-sacrifice at first for a few, but 

 the end to be gained is well worth the effort. Let every man put 

 the welfare of the entire community above his own personal con- 

 venience, and be wilhng to strictly obey all the provisions of the 

 quarantine laws if his premises become infected. In hke manner, 

 let every man consider it his duty to see that his neighbor is equally 

 conscientious in the performance of his duty. In every com- 

 munity there will be found one or two who will have to be forcibly 

 impressed with the necessity of obeying the law. These stubborn 

 cases will, through their own fault, sometimes have to be made 

 an example of, and, where necessary, the police powers of 



