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pie. The disease is quite contagious, and should be looked after 
at once. Parties have written and telegraphed Paaren, Veteri¬ 
narian, and can’t hear from him. This matter is of great impor¬ 
tance, and should be investigated and stopped at once. 
Can’t you have the Veterinarian come here at once and look 
into the matter. The people are very much alarmed, and if the 
matter is not investigated at once it will spread with disastrous 
results. It is already spreading. Please send Paaren here at 
once. Yours truly, 
H. W. S. Wheatley. 
No doubt can exist of the necessity for prompt legislative 
action in regard to Coipfagious disease among domestic animals: 
and it would almost seem proper that the medical authorities of 
this State, take the matter in hand without delay , to make it pos¬ 
sible to accomplish anything through the present session of our 
Legislature. Trade and traffic of such diseased animals should 
be peremptorily prohibited, as by this source, together with the 
use of such animals on public highways, and by-ways, and in the 
towns and cities of the State, the disease is now continually 
spreading. When a man becomes convinced that his horses are 
affected with this loathsome and positively incurable disease, he 
will endeavor to recover as much as possible of their value, by 
trading and selling the -same to unsuspecting and ignorant parties, 
who will bring them to other places-, where perhaps- no such dis¬ 
ease is known. Thus there exists in this State, one of the most 
malignant and contagious diseases known, and with that a con¬ 
stant source of menace and danger to human life. 
Hoping that the proceedings as stated in my present report 
will meet with the approval of the State Board of Health, I 
remain, Your obedient servant, 
N. H. Paaren, M. D. 
State Veterinarian. 
The members are doubtless aware that, as a direct outcome 
of these investigations and of the efforts made under the authority 
of the Board, the so-called “ Pleuro-Pueumonia Act ” has been 
so amended by the General Assembly, just adjourned, as to 
make its provisions apply also to glanders ; and the State Vete- 
