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of this disease during tlie past year. At the request of own- 

 ers, 21 cattle, 3 horses and 95 sheep were given the preventive 

 inocuhition. This treatment consists of two inoculations, 

 the second one being given ten days after the first. 



In the month of April the following order was issued in 

 relation to this disease : — 



Cattle Bureau Order No. 24. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, April 26, 1910. 



To All Persons whom it may concern: — 



By virtue of the jiower and authority vested by law in the Cattle 

 Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, under the provisions of 

 chapter 90 of the Revised Laws and chai^ter 116 of the Acts of 

 1902, you are hereby notified that anthrax, which is a contagious 

 disease and is so recognized under the laws of this Commonwealth, 

 has occurred recently among domestic animals in the towns of Great 

 Barrington and Sheffield. You are hereby further notified that in 

 order to prevent the si3read of this disease among domestic animals 

 and to protect the ijublic health in the localities where the disease 

 exists, the Chief of the Cattle Bureau hereby issues the following 

 order : — ■ 



1. The carcasses of any neat cattle, horses or other animals that 

 may die of anthrax are not to be skinned or opened, but must be 

 buried or cremated with the hides on. If they are buried they must 

 be buried deeply, away from any water course, and the carcasses 

 covered with quicklime. If any blood or excreta come from any 

 animal in removing it to a place of burial such material must be 

 scraped up and burned and the ground from which it was taken 

 sprinkled with quicklime. 



2. If any animals die of this disease in any stable the stable must 

 be disinfected according to the rules and regulations of the Cattle 

 Bureau. 



3. No one is to make any autoi")sy upon or any incision into the 

 carcass of any animal that has died of anthrax, unless he be an 

 agent of the Cattle Bureau acting under the authority of the Chief 

 of the Cattle Bureau at the time of making such autopsy or incision. 



4. Any person owning an animal that he suspects of having 

 anthrax, or losing an animal which he suspects may have died of 

 anthrax, or any pei'son hearing of the presence of this disease in 

 any species of animal, is to immediately notify the local inspector 

 of animals or the Chief of the Cattle Bureau or his agent. 



This order is to be made public by inspectors of animals in the 



