THE NATURE OF THE AMERICAN SWINE PLAGUE. 
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of a trustworthy inspector, whether said cars or conveyances had 
been previously used for a transport of swine or not. (Farmers’ 
wagons should be looked upon with suspicion and treated in the 
same manner as the conveyances of common carriers.) In such 
cases every means of transport must be looked upon as “ suspi¬ 
cious ” and treated as such. 
Should the swine-plague break out in a lot of imported hogs 
while thus quarantined, the pen in which they were confined 
should be cleansed, washed and disinfected daily. All straw and 
refuse should be carefully removed in iron hand-carts made for 
the purpose and then burned. 
The quarantine station should be provided with a furnace 
(or oven) for burning such material and for the cremation of the 
carcasses of any animals that should die or be killed on account 
of a contagious or infectious disease. The greatest precautions 
should be taken, in conveying such refuse material or carcasses to 
the crematory, that nothing dropped upon the passages of the 
quarantine. 
When an outbreak of the swine-plague (or other contagious 
disease) has come to an apparent end among the quarantined 
swine, the period of isolation and observation must then be ex¬ 
tended at least thirty days from the time the last sick animal had 
died, or the last suspicious symptoms had entirely disappeared 
among the lot of hogs that had been affected. At the expiration 
of that period the hogs may be delivered to the owner unless 
other suspicious symptoms have made themselves apparent within 
the allotted time. 
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The same precautions should be taken in their removal as have 
been previously mentioned. 
Upon arrival at the owner’s premises, the latter should be 
compelled to provide suitable conveniences for a further isolating 
and quarantining such swine for still another twenty days before 
he should be permitted to place them among other hogs upon his 
place. Whenever a lot of swine-plague diseased hogs were thus 
quarantined the chief inspector of such a government station 
should detail one person to take the exclusive care of such 
diseased hogs, and absolutely prohibit such a persons going near, 
