The New York herald., 1879-03-12

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the next hye years she killed and paid Tor one
thousand CATTLE but in doing sho killed the
tagion. and since 1868 has not known this disease
NEVER pEvxLorEp IN TUE WESTERN STATES.
Cattle have lived in iunumcrable herds in the
Western States subjected to all possible privatons
andto tho greatest trials in the way OF travel crowd
ing. Nth and starvation. but occasion has this
lung plague been developed. and to-day believe the
CATTLE of these States sound as are tho buf-
falocs the Plains. In Europe this plague always
extends tho occasion OF any great war and dovas
tates the countries through which the armies pass
but only because the eommissariat parks are sup
piled from infected districts During tho late Ameri
can war our commissarist herds subjected to
equal privatons. with the additional drawback OF
the absence Of the smooth paved roads of the Old
World bnt the plague broke out in these herds
ravagod the States where the armies were operat
ing. Tho explanation is that the cattle supplies were
drawn from uninfected regions, and in the absence
of the specific imported disease-germ no abuse
in America was capable of producing IL.
The swi,, milr st.hlss Of the West are as much
crowded, MS filthy and llvcntilated as those OF
New York and New Jersey. But the swill stables OF
the West produce this disease, while those OF
the seaboard into which the germ has been intro
duced ravaged to runous extent. II more PROOF
is wanted Of the purely CONTAGIOUS nature OF n the Inc
plague from the Highlands Of Scotland, the Channel
Islands. brittany, much of Normandy. Spain, Portu-
gal, Norway and Sweden. Those places breed their
stock and rarely import strange cattle;
therefore this poison exotic to their soil. hos never
gained q foothoId Norway and Sweden have. indeed;
imported the plague but speedily expelled 1t Dy the
only effectual method of extcrminatng the poison
The ia true of number Of other European
nations, we'll of Massac and Connecticut
The remark is ~ true to-day of Western Europe
and America as 1t was century ago. when made by
the immortal Haller Of his own native Switzerland
that the disease appears but as the result or
the introduction into country district OF an AMI
NAL from an injected place.
DANGEH MEASURES.
This being the case any temporzing with the
poison Is in the highest degree injudicous and harm
full In some of oar States laws are cnactcd against
thstles and may travel from side to side OF such
States without beholding this emblem of agri-
cultural shiftlessness. This success has been at
it's growth and by preventinu any sneciSen @ from
reaching fructificaton diffusng It's myriads Of
seeds. SO with the bovine lung fever Incompar-
ably less apprecable and less tangible than the this
tie down. seeds of this disease are being con-
stanty exhaled from the lungs of the sick animal,
and the infected air is waited onward loaded with
may quarantine tho sick, but we cannot quarantine
the arr. We may purity the air. it is true
by an incessant Encouragement of disinfectant
vapors. But the cost would exceed the value of the
sick animal, ii it recovered. We may shut ont
and beasts from the infected premises, though
this would be found to be practically impossi-
bio when attempted on o large SCALE but we cannot
absolutely prevent wild animals like pigeons, rats
and mice from Guiding vigilance. We can disin-
feet the drains and manure heaps, but can never
be that every particle OF the poison has been de-
composed and that il removed or washed away such
products will not infect other animals. When the
sick preserved for any purpose the poison
is being cons antly given off in all the
products and accumulated in the air in the
buildings and in the excretions to snch
extent that watchfuness can at all times guard
against Its escape To- quarantine the sick is there
fore to maintain prolific manufactures of the poison
which We wish to destroy and to open the way for
its wide diffusion.
EXPENSE OF QUARANTINE
tskexpens. The perfect isolation of sick animals
visitors. human and brute, can only be secured by
patrol to be kept up day and night Any such course
would soon incur an expense greater than tho value
of the animals sought be preserved. At the
w ssr spd Alone % sm Of oxs
5000. At another stable, containing only twelve
cows, the ShcrifTs expenses tor fourteen days
amounted to $780, 1t We add to these the expenses
of professional examination OF the animals OF the
treatment of the sick, which is necessary corollary
of the quarantine the constant disnfection of the
and cxcretios and the repeated disnfection OF the
buildings 1t will at appear that this method Is
the most ruinonsly expensive, as it Is the most dan
gerous and inefficient that possibly be adopted.
INEFFECTUAL TREATMENT.
What has been stated OF quarantine is sufficient
answer to the densnd for the treatment of the sick.
Ranous in its expense. and still more ruinous in its
reproduction anu propagation OF the poison, it
should be prohibite under the heaviest penalties in
all countries where 1e determination Of the disease
has been determined on. Germany, Holland Bel
gium, France and England have been treating the
victims OF this plague for nearly half century. but
the result has only been the increase Of disease and
DEATH Our own infected States have been treating
il for third of century. and to day it exists over
wider than before. Contrast this with the
results in Massachusetts, pnd Connecticut where the
disease has been repeatedly crushed out ut small
pcnse, and there can be no doubt rs to which
is the wisest course. As all the plaques are
alike in the propagation of sthe poison in
the bodies of the sick, may be allowed
to aduce the experience OF two adjacent counties in
Scotland when invaded by the rinderpest Aberdeen
raised fund of f2,O00. and though she suffered
cral successive invasions sho speedily crushed out
the poison wherever it appeared by slarghcrng the
sick beasts and disnfecting the premises. The
sult was that little more than half the fund was
wanted to reimburse tho owners tor their losses and
the splendid herds OF the county preserved.
Forfnr. on the other hand set herself to cure the
plague, with the result of universal Infection the
loss of many thousands OF cattle and the ruin of
hundreds of farmers. Finally the malady was
crushed out in the entire island by the method
adopted by Aberdeen and other well advised counties
ut the outset.
INCUBATION INCOMPATIBLE WITH ExrEnMISArroS.
Inoculation is condemned by all those considera-
tions that would forbid quarantine and treatment.
Whatever good there is in incubation depends on
the reproduction of the poison in the system the
noculated ANIMAL as 10 render it unsusceptibc to
second attack. The inocuated animal il therefore
Infected and like boast injected In the ordinary
way, is prolific source of the poison and means
OF It's diffusion. incubation has been largely prac
tiscd in Europe, but country which has rcsorted
to it extensively has succeeded in roofing out
the pestcncc. Cattle have been inocuated by the
tens OF Thousands in Belgium and Holland, and OF
all Europe these are tho countries now most exten-
tcnsively injected. France. Prussia, Italy, Austria
ant Eiplanu have each practiscd IL on n large
scale and each rem iins home OF the plague. Aus
traiia has followed the practice and IL now and
must continue an infected country. Que own in
iected States have inocula:cd, and the disease has
survived and spread sptc-of 1t, and even by its
aid. Whatever country has definitely cxterminated
the plague NORWAY. Sweden. Donmark. Hoistcin.
Meckicnbcr2, Switzerland Massscliusctts and Con-
ncciicntl that country has prohibited inocuat ON
and all other methods that prevail ON the principle
of preserving tn. sick, and has relied the slauyh
ter ot the injected and the thorough dsinfectou OF
their surroundings. 80 will Il bs with us. II any
state adopts allows any OF these temporizng
that state Will oni, repeat the experience of tho
past alike in the Old World and the Naw, will per-
pctuatc the disease in the cornry. will entail great
losses on it's citizens, will keep up the ne.d for
slant watchfulncss and great expense by the ndctn
ing States for their projection ana viii indeh
nteiy postpone the resumption OF the foreign live
stocL trade, which tow months ago promised TO Ie
one of tho most valuable branches OF our inter-
national commerce In the present crisis nothing
excuse delay or ineihciont legislation work.
TO lo successful all the infected States must act har
moniousy and IL sny one comes short of u statute
and administration at least rs thorough as that Of
New York. that state will rest the odum OF pro-
tracting what cannot but be considered otherwise