GLANDERS IN ILLINOIS. 
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GLANDERS IN ILLINOIS. 
(Reprint from the Report of the Illinois Board of Health.) 
(Continued from page 308.) 
CONTAGION AMONG FOOD-PRODUCING ANIMALS. 
In this connection it may not be out of place to submit the 
following correspondence to the Board: 
CoNSULAT DE FRANCE, CHICAGO, ) 
76 Monroe St., May 18, 1883. ) 
Dear Sir : 
I would like to know what powers the State Board of Health 
is invested with by the State laws, or what measures are pro¬ 
vided for by the statutes in order to check the spread of conta¬ 
gious diseases among the animals, and also what steps you have 
to adopt in order to protect the great agricultural interest should 
a disease of that kind be spreading at one point, either inside or 
outside of this State; what are your rights in regard to the 
roads and markets, public or private, like the market of the Union 
Stock-Yard Company, of Chicago; how many agents you have 
to dispose of and how they enforce the State laws, and what is 
their salary. 
I should also be very much interested in learning what money 
is provided for the expenses iucurred in such a case, and whether 
animals and barns are cared for, disinfected or destroyed at the 
cost of the owner or the State. 
All printed regulations, circulars or advice you would be able 
to forward me would very much oblige me. 
Thanking you in advance for the kind assistance you would 
favor me with, I have the honor to be, dear Sir, your obedient 
servant, 
Edmond Bruwaert, 
French Consul. 
John H. Rauch, M. D., 
Secretary of the State Board of Health. 
These inquiries seemed to me obviously for the purpose of 
securing information to be laid before the French Government 
