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GLANDERS IN ILLINOIS. 
as the basis for legislation concerning the importation of Ameri¬ 
can food animals and their products; and in the present hostile 
attitude of such legislation by some of the Continental powers, it 
seemed worth while to make the reply as comprehensive and ex¬ 
act as the time at my command would permit. I think 1 have 
shown in the following reply that the interests both of the pro¬ 
ducer and the purchaser are well protected under the present 
system. 
Illinois State Board of Health. 1 
Office of the Secretary, > 
Springfield, May 30, 1883. ) 
My dear Sir : 
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of 
the 18th inst., asking certain questions concerning the State 
Board of Health, and the measures provided by law to check the 
spread of contagious diseases among animals; and regret that 
the pressure upou'my time has been so great as to delay reply 
until now. 
Your inquiries involve, as I understand them, the general 
question of the conservancy of food-producing animals from con¬ 
tagious diseases, with specific reference— 
First, to the power and authority of the State Board of 
Health in the matter of quarantine, both of exclusion and of iso¬ 
lation ; in the sanitary control of roads, markets, stock-yards, etc., 
and in the direction of agencies for the enforcement of the laws 
on these subjects. 
Second, with reference to the protection of the agricultural 
interests from the effects of the introduction of contagion or in¬ 
fection among animals from without, or its spread within the 
State. 
The second section of the Act of May 25, 1877, creating the 
State Board, and from which section the Board derives its powers, 
reads as follows: 
“ Section 2. The State Board of Health shall have the general 
supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens 
of the State. They shall have charge of all matters pertaining 
to quarantine ; and shall have authority to make such rules and 
