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Show Cases of Foot and Mouth Disease Still Spreading. AKES THE ELEVENTH STATE i. A. Broadhui'St and Other Government Govern-ment Officials Called to Fight Disease Washington, Nov. 8. An order luarantining the state of Rhode Is-,nd Is-,nd against interstate shipments of ie stock was prepared tonight by he department of agriculture for is-uance is-uance tomorrow. Cases of the foot nd mouth disease were reported uring the day from the vicinity of ohnson and Washington. Rhode Island will make the elev-mth elev-mth state to be placed under quaran-ine quaran-ine in the campaign to supress the epidemic. Massachuetts, New York, .hio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois. Illin-ois. Maryland, Michigan, Wisconsin md Iowa composing tne arreccry area iffected by the disease. Threatens Untold Loss Secretary Houston of the department depart-ment of agriculture tonight said this epidemic was "one of the most contagious con-tagious and destructive diseases of cattle, swine and sheep, exceeding in area affection any of tbte five previous previ-ous outbreaks, in this country." Unless Un-less the infection can be immediately localized and quickly eradicated, he said it threatens untold losses among live stock. The secretary authorized the issuance issu-ance of the following offiicial statement: state-ment: "So contagious is the disease that in past outbreaks where but one animal ani-mal in a herd was infected, the entire herd in almost all cases later contracted con-tracted the sickness. While the mortality mor-tality is not high, the effects of the disease even on animals that recover are such as to make them practically useless. "It is possible to cure the external symptoms, but during the process oE attempting to cure one sick animal the chances are that hundreds of others oth-ers may be infected. Only One Remedy "Veterinary authorities of the United States are agreed that the only on-ly method of combating that disease is to stop all movement of stock and material which have been subjected to any danger of infection, and to kill off without delay all herds in which the disease has gained any foothold. "At present the chief danger lies in the possibilities of there being concealed sources of infection. Every Ev-ery effort is being made by state and federal authorities, not only to trace suspicious shipments, but to convince farmers of the seriousness of the disease and the extreme ease with which it is communicated, and to urco ur.on them to report at once to state or federal authorities ail such cases of sore mouths or lameness." p A. I-roadhurn of Mount Pleas-ant'tocrc-ther with all the government quarantine officials of the west were called to fight the dreaded disease in the east. Mr- Broadhurst left this city Monday afternoon bound for Columbus, Ohio. He did not know at the time of his leaving just how long he would be gone in the east. |