The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-02

attacked herds OF swine in some parts Of Win
nebago county and has swept of thousands of
dollar, worth of hogs in adjoining counties,
The best medical practitioners who have
made tins disease n study have arrived at the
conclusion that the disease is contagious, that
il is catching like small puX. measles, ana
that class of diseases, They also claim that
the act of gathering up and cartng the car
casscs of the animals which have died with
1t about the country, rs Is being done, by par
ties connected with soap factories and render
ing establishments is the cause of its rapid
spread.
The following article on this subject, from
the HemH IF Ueah, medical paper pub
lishcd at Bloomington, H., should be careful
ly read 10y all or tanners, and the suggestions
it contain, carefully considered.
Is the disease known ~ hog cholera con
tagious: That is the most important question
that can be proposed in connection with this
scourge 1t it springs pon,nncously from the
earth; if 1t is generated in foul ar or filthy
water if it be produced n, noro 10y the use Of
improper food, or generally ny unsanitary con
ditOns, then there Is no nope. We shall al
ways have cholera. Since It II not known
Just what conditions produce II, and since 1t Is
coniesscdly difficult 10 maintain sanitary con.
ditions among hogs, the mos, careful may suf-
fer from it; and the less careful and great ma
iority are sure to do 50. But ii it be IA contag
ion; if it Is communicated only by contact, or
is borne buta short distance by water or through
air; if it be II specific inspection, and is never
produced spontaneous y-ncvcr Indigenous
but always imported, then il may be prevented;
then isolation will cure it-"stamp it OUT
when once introduced, and all all have II in
their power to avoid it. Small -pOX is viru-
lent coniagion, but simple isolation will pre-
vent it, and what is much easier and better,
vaccination will prevent it, Scarlet fever is II
cOntagiOn one Of the most difficult To com
pass, but isolation is an eilccual preventive.
Yellow fever is cOntagiOn, the assertion of the
CItHic and Ldncti to to the contrary notWih-
Standing and that at this moment is scourg-
ING the South, but dumH- the late war there
was not case in the country; ii was blOCkad-
ed at the southern ports. Let il bc known that
hog cholera is also q conlagion, then men viii
guard their stock from new impOrtations, from
hogs passing the road, from their ncghbors
hogs, from contact and cOntguity, and SO GER
tainly avoid infection.
The matcyicS HtorJi Of Il true cOntagon Is not
an imponderable invisible gas borne on the
wings Of the wind, against which there could
bc no defense 1t Is thing borne out by the
infected themselves. 1t may bo carried in the
clothes, or with straw or other bedding. 1t
may be mixed with water OF food, and thus
brought in. All the ront8gi1 Of which we
know anything are heavier than the ar and
can only be carried to short distances by air
currents. Hog cholera is no exception. 1t
cannot like the devils of Old travel from place
to place and enter into SWINE. II muSt b. eur
yTed, and when men come TO understand It lit
tie better by what means It is carried, they will
be better abe to eilcctualy protect their stock
from it.
That cholera is coatagio0s, is proved we
think by such facts and consideration. as these:
l. 1t conducts itself a. q cOntagiOn
Mr. jeremiah Bell, of jersey county, says
when it came to us The hogs died right along,
as people do in ASiatc cholera times"
Mr. A. Canterbury, Of Ford county, says:
"The cholera was brought to my farm eight
wears since. The lot remained in my pens for
two DAYS. had them removed, for they were
diving all the time In three or four days my
hoes (Which had been healthy began dying
and all soon died"
Mr. f. W Beldcn Of Kane county, says
In two instances in this ncighborhOod, par
ties lost their hogs by bringing hogs among
them from distance"
Mr. +. b. Harold, of Dewitt county, says
1T is contagious the same us smallpox or vel.
low fever"
Capt. j. b. Moss, Of Jefferson county, says
Cholera was Introduced into my herd by
bringing SONS to bOars have no doubt OF
it."
Mr. J. ilalttt Carroll county, SAYS Dis
ease communicates to all nesting together
Mr.. j. NJ Bruce, of Coles county, says
Hogs are not liable to Il second attack. Once
introduced all have 1t except those previously
affected"
Mr. j. j. Adams, OF Coles county, bought
hogs and took them home, and the cholera
broke out and spread, Those which had il
before escaped.
Mr.. J. J. Bergen of Cass county, says; His
hogs caught the disease from hi, ncighbors.'
The hogs Of +. VI. Anderson, Of Ford COun
ty, were "always healthy until Others with
cholera got with them"
Some of Mr.. Is. L. DOrscy's hogs CMacoupr
county, got out and went to a nei ghbors, her,
hogs had cholera and in fourteen days they
began to die, and the disease became general
Mr.. w. W. Potts, of Schuyler county, says
"a man hrourht fpur hundred horS from ST