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would be possible to control even with the use of such an excellent 

 agent as serum. 



The best results from the use of hog-cholera serum will not be 

 obtainable until we are able to get such sanitary laws enacted by 

 state legislatures as will authorize the state veterinarian or other 

 properly designated official to enforce strict quarantine in infected 

 districts, such as that provided for in the regulations for Fayette 

 County, Ohio, and Pettis County, Mo. The combination of 

 proper quarantine, with free use of serum by both the simultaneous 

 and the single methods, will soon show results. Cholera can and 

 will be controlled, and the American farmer will be liberated from 

 the greatest scourge to which he has ever been subjected. 



Recognizing the importance of these sanitary measures in the 

 regulation of cholera, the United States Sanitary Commission at its 

 1913 meeting adopted the following report of a committee ap- 

 pointed to draw up a report covering this phase of hog-cholera 

 control : 



"The committee recommends legislation authorizing or em- 

 powering the proper state authority to make and enforce the regu- 

 lations suggested in the following outline, or such parts thereof as 

 are necessary for the protection of local (state) interests and with 

 due regard to the interests of the nation : 



'^Providing for Quarantine and Shipping Regulations 



"1. The shipment or movement, interstate, of swine affected 

 with cholera to be prohibited. 



"2. Exposed swine to be shipped under permit and placarded. 



"3. The movement of cholera-infected swine over the public 

 highways of the state to be prohibited. 



"4. Provision for moving exposed swine under permit in ap- 

 proved manner. 



"5. Carcasses of animals, and particularly of swine that have 

 died of cholera, to be burned within twenty-four hours after death, 

 or, under special permit, be disposed of otherwise. 



"6. The shipment by rail of swine for purposes other than im- 

 mediate slaughter to be permitted only through special pens and 

 unloading chutes or through portable chutes directly into wagons. 



