The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-04-10
REGULATION 9
OF the Louisiana State Live Stock
Sanitary Board as Amended
January 10, 1915.


permit any animal or animals affected
with or that have been directly ex-
posed to Anthrax or Charlton, Hog
Cholera, Chambers, Blackleg or any
other contagious or communicable dis
ease, to run at large or to 60 upon any
public road. Said animal or animals
must be kept on their premises, in
proper Enclosures until all danger of
infection has passed, under penalty of
Section of Act 274 Of the General
Assembly of 1908 and under Act 124 of
1912, specifying fine of not less than
ten $4,000 dollars nor more than five
hundred ($5O0.OO dollars, or imprison-
ment not less than thirty 500 days nor
more than one ~ year in the parish
Jail.
In order to control and aid in the
suppression of Anthrax or Charlton,
Hog Cholera, Chambers, Blackleg, Rabies
or Hydrophobia, and any other con-
tagious or communicable disease OF
animals in the State of Louisiana, it
shall be the duty of the person or per-
sons owning any animal or animals
affected or suspected of being affected
with such disease or diseases, or any
other person, to notify the Executive
Officer of the State Live Stock Sanitary
Board, at Baton Rouge, direct or
through the President of the Police
Jury of the parish in which the animal
or animals is domiciled.
And 1t is hereby ordered that when
any animal or animals dies during the
Charlton season, or during the months
from April LIST to December 1st, that
the carcass or carcasses must be dis
posed OF in sanitary manner by Gre
nation (burning) or deep burial, as set
forth by regulations of the Louisiana
State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
1t is further ordered that, In the case
OF Hog Cholera outbreaks, the carcasses
of all hogs that have died from the
disease known as Hog Cholera in the
State of Louisiana, at any season of
the year, shall be Immediately burned
or deeply buried with lime on the
premises upon which they died. The
hauling of Hog Cholera carcasses upon
the public highways of this State, or
the disposal of such carcasses into
streams, lakes or bayous, of the State
is strictly prohibited by law. This
regulation does not apply to carcasses
within the limits of a city which is
provided with an incinerator or in
which rendering plant is operated.
Any owner or owners of such carcass
or carcasses, who shall in any way in.
terfere with the sanitary orders of the
police jury or it's veterinary inspector
who shall have been duly authorized
by the Louisiana State Live Stock San.
itary Board or it's Executive Officer,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor and
shall, as provided by Act 274 of the
Session of 1908 and Act 124 of 1912, !
be subject to penalty of fine of not |
less than ten $4,000 dollars or more
than five hundred ($50O.O0) dollars, or
not less than thirty 600 days imprison.
ment nor more than one ~ year in !
the parish joil.
The police juries of the State are
hereby authorized and empowered to
appoint a temporary inspector, or in.
spectors, in their parishes, provided |
said inspector or inspectors shall be
approved by the Louisiana State Live
Stock Sanitary Board or it's Executive
Officer, who shall have the same power
or powers as duly qualified officers of
this Board during the investigation of
any suspicious case, or cases, or infec-
tious, contagious or communicable dis
eases of live stock. All expenses and
fees of such temporary inspectors shall
be borne by the police jury.
The carcasses of all animals shall be
Immediately disposed of by burning or
by burial in one or other of the follow
ing ways:
BURNING:-A suitable trench shall /
be dug about two feet deep by two or
three feet wide, and of sufficient length /
to accommodate the number of car
casses to be burned at one time. Across
the top of the trench should be placed
a sufficient number of green poles, or
iron bars. if available, to act as grid
die on which to place the carcass. The /
trench should be filled with kindling.
wood of some kind, and after the car
cass is placed on the poles, or bars, it
should be heaped up with heavier
wood, and the whole saturated with
coal oil and set fire to.
In some sections of the State, wood
may be scarce, while coal oil may be
plentiful. In this case, sufficient
number of old gunny-sacks, or other