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tion, and overruled the Illinois decisions, (Railroad Co. v. Husen, 
5 Otto, 465). The act was thereupon declared to be unconstitu¬ 
tional by the Illinois Supreme Court in the caise of Salzenstein v. 
Marvis, 11 Chicago Legal News, 357, and has since been a dead 
letter. However, all that it was sought to do by this act is fully 
recovered by Sec. 258 of the Criminal Code and by the “ Pleuro- 
Pneumonia Act.” 
Recent outbreaks of glanders in several portions of the State 
have led to the introduction in both Houses of the present Gen¬ 
eral Assembly of a bill amending the latter Act so as to include 
horses, mules and asses within its scope. As there is every pros¬ 
pect of this bill being enacted into a law, I send you a copy of it, 
marked enclosure “B.” 
A good illustration of the practical working of the State 
Board of Health Act is afforded in recent action had upon the 
outbreaks just alluded to. The preliminaries upon which the 
interference of the Board was based are detailed upon pages 9 
and f 0 of the accompanying copy of the report of the quarterly 
meeting of the Board, April 12 and 14, 1883, enclosure marked 
“ C.” 
It should be borne in mind that the State Veterinarian had 
no authority to act under the law, which confines him to animals 
of the bovine species; nor was the public health threatened by 
an infected food-supply. The disease, however, being one capa¬ 
ble of affecting the human family—having, in fact, caused two 
deaths in one locality, the State Board of Health, by virtue of 
authority vested in it by the second section of the Act of 1877, 
already cited, had ample warrant; and Dr. Paaren was at once 
dispatched to the infected region. Subsequently, a similar course 
was pursued in five oilier counties of the State. A copy of Dr. 
Paaren’s instructions, marked “ D,” is enclosed. The same gen¬ 
eral course was pursued in all these cases, namely: An investiga¬ 
tion to determine the character and extent of the disease; the 
appraisal, condemnation and slaughter of all diseased animals; 
the isolation of those which had been exposed ; the disinfection 
or destruction of all infected property; and an interdict upon the 
sale, removal or other disposition—except by destruction—of all 
horses, mules or asses owned by those compromised. 
