No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 319 



As foot and mouth disease prevails extensively in France, 

 Italy, Austria and Switzerland, and also to a less degree in 

 some of the other European eountries, it does not seem im- 

 possible for the disease to have been imported from Europe 

 in fresh "seed" brouijht over to some vaccine virus estab- 

 lishment in the United States, to renovate a product that 

 was losing its vitality. 



This seems an additional argument in favor of the estab- 

 lishment uy the State of a vaccine-producing plant, as pro- 

 vided for by the Legislature of 1903, as the production of 

 biological products of all kinds should be carried on only by 

 the most thoroughly trained scientists, and all such material 

 used in medicine should be under the direction and control 

 of carefully educated experts employed either by the national 

 or State government. 



jStatistics of -Foot and Mouth Disease. 

 The followino; table g-ives the towns where the disease 

 actually occurred, and the number of infected herds and ani- 

 mals, as well as the disposition made of them. In addition, 

 a number of herds were quarantined early in the outbreak, 

 thought to have been exposed by receiving cattle out of 

 droves from Brighton, which had carried the disease in some 

 cases. These were afterward released. Some were in towns 

 where the disease did not appear. These towns are not men- 

 tioned in the table, but in the figures below the table the 

 total number of animals quarantined because of the disease 

 or for precautionary reasons is given. 



