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SOCIETY MEETINGS 
Dr. Salmon, of Washington, wanted to know wliat steps would be taken 
should the quarantine in Cook County be raised. He thought some provision 
ought to be made for keeping up a surveillance over the Chicago stock yards until 
it was certain all germs of the disease were suppressed in Cook County. The 
stock yards were never infected. 
Dr. Alloway, in another speech, thought that on account of the importance 
attaching to the matter, the removal of the quarantine should not be thought of. 
At any rate the quarantine should be continued until the first of next year, if it 
was for nothing more than to satisfy everybody and quiet their fears regarding 
the disease. If an outbreak occurred after the removal of the quarantine, the 
Association could be held partly responsible for it if it endorsed such action now. 
Mr. S. S. Hinds, of Michigan Live Stock Commission, spoke against the ma¬ 
jority report, and said that the Commissioners of Illinois laid very strong stress 
upon the fact that no case had been discovered siuce July 12th. The official re¬ 
ports stated September 10th. He thought if a line was drawn against an insidious 
disease, ninety days should be the least length of time for it to exist. He thought 
the appropriation was sufficient to maintain the quarantine a long time. It was a 
very difficult thing, he said, to suppress the diseases of cattle in the city. After 
search of an entire section for victims of the disease, a diseased cow had often 
been found in a cellar or a garret, and as far as he knew one might yet be discov¬ 
ered stowed away in an attic. If there was any haste in removing the quaran¬ 
tine, he would hold the Bureau of Animal Industry and the Board of Commis¬ 
sioners of Illinois first responsible. 
Dr. Holcomb now felt, from the views expressed, that it would be prudent 
for the Bureau of Animal Industry to keep men in the infected territory even 
after the quarantine was raised. His advice to the Sanitary Board was, that since 
a case of pleuro-pneumonia had been found in Cook County as recently as the 
last part of August, it- would be undue haste to remove the quarantine before 
spring. He thought, however, that the passage of the resolutions would be an 
effort to dictate to the Sanitary Board, which he believed was out of the Associa¬ 
tion’s province. 
Dr. Paquin said that there was no dictation in the resolution. He had pre¬ 
sented the resolutions, but they were merely of a suggestive nature. He had vis¬ 
ited Chicago, and thought that with Cook County in quarantine there was little 
danger to Missouri, as it was in a position to more closely follow the work done 
against the disease; yet he could not feel entirely safe. 
Dr. Hopkins, of Wyoming, apologized for taking the floor again, and said 
that the resolution had brought about the discussion and consideration it con¬ 
templated, so that, though he was in favor of it, he would not urge its passage any 
longer, since its beneficial effects were apparent. It appeared to him that by 
raising the quarantine the people of Illinois did not take the same chances that 
the people of the Western plains did. It had been said that the disease was con¬ 
fined to the cow traffic of the city. Where the disease had existed in Philadel¬ 
phia and other places, it extended into the country about them. If the quaran¬ 
tine was removed from Chicago, it might extend into other counties of Illinois. 
From one of those counties one of the cattle might get into the plains. There 
the animals have no yards or stables to confine them, and no bounds can be put to 
