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regulations, and such sanitary investigations, as they may from 
time to time deem necessary for the preservation or improvement 
of public health; and it shall be the duty of all police officers, 
sheriffs, constables and all other officers and employees of the 
State, to enforce such rules and regulations, so far as the effi¬ 
ciency and success of the Board may depend upon their official 
co-operation.” 
This section is held to clothe the State Board with ample 
authority in all matters affecting the public health; to entrust it 
with the fullest control of quarantine; to empower it to conduct 
sanitary investigations, and to make rules and regulations based 
thereon; and to place at its disposal “all police officers, sheriffs, 
constables, and all other officers and employees of the State to 
enforce such rules and regulations.” 
It will be seen from this that the existence of any contagious 
disease among food-producing animals would make it competent 
for the State Board, in its discretion, to investigate the facts—as 
to cause, extent, etc.—and to make the rules and regulations nec¬ 
essary for its suppression. 
Such measures may involve condemnation and slaughter of 
diseased animals; the isolation of the suspected or compromised; 
the disinfection, or—where disinfection may be insufficient—the 
destruction, of infected buildings and articles; and all other ac¬ 
tion necessary to eradicate the contagion. If requisite, quaran- 
antine of exclusion may be declared for the protection of threat¬ 
ened localities. Losses and expenses incurred in carrying out 
these measures are a charge upon the township or county in which 
the contagion exists. 
The agencies actually employed in the enforcement of such 
measures are, usually, the local health authorities—municipal and 
village boards of health, as the case may be, although the lan¬ 
guage of the Act places all police officers, sheriffs, etc., at the dis¬ 
posal of the Board for this purpose. 
Aside from the public health or sanitary aspect of the ques¬ 
tion, the protection of the agricultural interest from the intro¬ 
duction or spread of contagious disease among animals, is also 
the subject of special legislation. 
