The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02

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IS one reason for this unrest.
HOG CHOLERA.
Keep it Out of the County by
Observing Instructions.
People must realize clearly that hog
cholera is a contagious disease like
small. pox or diphtheria, and that it
never appears without a direct infec-
ton.
The germs which cause the disease
do not float in the air under ordinary
conditions, so far as known, but are
transported from place to place by
adhering to shoes and clothing of peo-
pie, or to the feet and limbs of horses,
or to wagon wheels, or to the bodies
of hogs that may be removed from
place to place. The manure is
especially infectious.
The board of township supervisors
constitutes, under the law, local
board of health for each township. In
case a suspicious disease appears
among the swine, it is the duty of this
town board to put the farm under
rigid quarantine at once, so far as the
hogs are concerned. According to
section two of the new law dealing
with the matter of infectious diseases
among domestic animals, it becomes
any persons duty who knows of or has
reason to suspect the existence of any
contagious disease among any domes-
tic animals, to report the same immedi-
ately to the local board of health.
Either neglect or refusal to do so
makes the person liable, according to
Sec. 9 of the same law, to a fine of not
less than $3.50 nor more than $4,000,
or imprisonment of not less than 30
nor more than 80 days.
When a farm is guaranteed, on &C.
count of hog cholera, the quarantine
should include all the hogs that have
been exposed to the infection, direct
" or indirectly, with those that have
been sick.
No hogs should be allowed taken
on to or from this farm within less
period than six months after the last
sick hog has died or recovered except
as dressed carcasses of hogs that we're
healthy when killed. s
Neighbors should be warned of the
presence of this disease. It is dan
gerous matter for them to go around
the pens or yards where these sick hogs
have been kept, and it is also danger
GUS to permit any one from this infect
ed farm to go around their yards or
pens during the existence of this out
break or for at least a month after the
outbreak has disappeared.
In case of doubt, it is the duty of
the town board to call q competent
veterinarian at once to make the neces-
sary examinations and to pronounce
as to the nature of the disease, where
upon if the veterinarian gives a dag
nosis of q contagious disease it is the
duty of the township board to take
such further action as may be deemed
necessary to protect the public.
Members Of the town board should
distribute circulars on hog cholera,
which may be, obtained from the State
board of health, and give such infor-
nation and advice throughout the
neighborhood as they may be able.
Hogs that have died of any disease
should not be buried close to the bank
of a stream or lake, in fact they should
not be buried at all if they can be
easily burned.
Farmers should be urged to raise
their own hogs at home to the largest
possible extent and not try the dan
gerous expense of shipping in hogs to
feed, for hogs may come from an in
fected district or they may be loaded
from yards that have been previously
infected or they may have been trans
ported in cars that have been pre-
viously infected.
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