Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-21
GOV, BALDWIN ACCEPTS
 FEDERAL REGULATIONS
Quarantine for Foot and Mouth Dis
 ease Is Now in Effect.


 Governor Simeon F. Baldwin has
 sent his official acceptance of the terms of the federal quarantine and
 the indemnity paid for destroying cat
 tie affected with the foot and mouth disease. Commissioner Phelps met the
 governor Wednesday morning in the hall of the capitol. and immediately invited him into the commissioners office for a conference on the follow
 ing letter which had just been re- ceived:
 Commissioner on Domestic Animals, Simsbury, Conn. Sir: Concerning the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, you are advised that the following states have been quarantined to date:
 Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Jn- diana. Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts. Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio. Penn sylvanias Rhode Island and Wiscon- sin.
 The department is calling in all of it's men possible from other lines of work and putting them at foot and
 mouth disease eradication just as rap l1dly as it can do so. Until we can get men in the field in Connecticut it's spread, as the present outbreak l is the worst this country has ever experienced and is going to require the most earnest and intelligent work by the state as we'll as by the federal bureau of animal industry, A rigid state quarantine should De promptly inaugurated on all premises where the disease is found. as we'll as on the highways leading by and into infected farms, to prevent the move | ment, trailing or driving of cattle,
 sheep, other ruminants and swine over SIIch highways
 There appears to be a. tendency in
 most infected localities on the part of veterinarians as well as others, through acquaintance, friendship. or
 position, to claim the privilege of see- 1 ing cases Of the disease. It is there fore. important that veterinarians and owners be instructed in the matter
 of such dangers.
 Veterinarians engaged fin making inspections should be equipped with
 rubber coats, hats. gloves. boots and bichloride of mercury tablets ana di-
 rected in their conscientious use.
 The plan under which the depart ! ment is operating in the various states 1 is as follows:
 The department will pay 5o Der cent
 of the appraised value of slaughtered
 livestock. destroyed hay, straw, and
 parts of stables; 50 per cent. of dis injecting expenses, digging ana burial expenses. and will Day all salaries of SS.A EAA4p1OSCS, lIEG1T 11lT0 as may be necessary, travelling and sIIb- ststence expenses end rental of of- fees, which will practically amount
 to more than two-thirds of the ex- penses being borne by the government. Please present this matter to the
 governor for his approval end agree
 naent. a5 applying to the state of Con- nectlcut.
 Respectfully T. R MOHI&EE, Acting Chief of Bureau. Commissioner Phelps then drew Governor Baldwin's attention to Sec ton zS7s. Chapter 23T. of tho General Statutes, which provides:
 United States Authorities May
 Quarsntine-The governor may accept
 on behalf Of the state the rules and
 regulations prepared by the commits sioner of agriculture under and in pur- 1 suance of section three of an act of congress approved May 29, 1884, en- titled An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry to prevent
 the exportation of diseased cattle, aud to provide means for the suppression and extirpadon of pieuro -pneuEaonta and other contagious diseases among domestic animals ana co-uperate with