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STAMPING OUT I’LKURO-l'NEUMON IA IN NEW JERSEY. 
inconvenience and injury to all concerned and a minimum of ex¬ 
penditures by the State. 
In this spirit I further advert to certain precautions which 
are absolutely necessary to insure the complete andprompt eradica¬ 
tion of the disease among cattle in the State, and which it may 
be difficult to enforce without the cheerful and intelligent assist¬ 
ance of the owners of cattle and of all good citizens. 
x\mong them are the following: 
No persons who are not employed in the care of the cattle 
kept there should be allowed to enter infected premises; 
No animal, or even fowls, should be allowed to enter such 
premises, for the reason that, even when not liable to the infection 
themselves, they may carry its seeds to neat cattle ; 
The clothing of all persons engaged in the care, slaughter or 
rendering of diseased or exposed cattle, or in any employment 
which brings them in contact with such diseased animal, should 
be disinfected before they leave the premises where such animals 
are; 
Persons employed in the care of infected animals should not 
enter stables, yards or premises where sound cattle are kept with¬ 
out first thoroughly disinfecting their clothing; 
Manure, forage and litter upon infected premises should only 
be removed therefrom in such a manner and be so disposed of as 
to prevent the spread of infection. 
You are instructed not only to take such measures as in your 
judgment will secure the observance of these and all similar 
necessary precautions, but you will also use every effort to con¬ 
vince those concerned that it is their own best interest to secure 
such observance by all means in their power. 
Whenever in your judgment it becomes necessary, you arc 
authorized, without further reference to me, to call upon the 
Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs of the townships concerned to carry 
out and enforce the provisions of the law and of the instructions 
received from me. 
Very respectfully your obt. svt., 
George B. McClellan, 
Governor. 
