114 REPORT OF UNIVERSITY OF NEVADAfully complied with. Seldom is the actual police po-wer of the State called into play to carry out drastic measures for the protection of a community.No attempt is made to prepare and distribute by sale or otherwise biological products which, by reason of being well tried and established, can be procured on the open market. For the convenience of those requiring same, the Board of Regents have arranged to purchase such products from reliable commercial laboratories operating under federal supervision and supply same to stock-owners at a price just sufficient to cover cost and distribution, which is in nearly all instances well under the list price for the products supplied.As in the past, no attempt is made to do interstate inspections or surgical and other clinical work in noninfectious diseases, such work not being considered a proper function for an organization maintained at public expense, but belonging entirely within, the field of the private practitioner of veterinary medicine.DISTRIBUTION OF SERVICEDuring the past t-wo years representatives of this department have visited 2,891 premises distributed through all the counties of the State. In doing so, they have traveled as follows:1917 1918 TotalsTrain 19,096 25,726 44,822Auto 17.186 26,077 42,263Team - 210 172 382A total of (miles) 36,492 60,975 87,467As familiarity with the service extends, this work distributes itself more evenly over the State, the southern and eastern portions having been more frequently visited than previously.As in the past, the major portion of our work is for the smaller live¬ stock owners. This is especially true in so far as the actual carrying out of detailed procedures is concerned, the large corporations being more apt to ask for assistance in the way of a diagnosis of disease and detailed instructions for its control, after which they carry out same largel}^ with their own resources.GENERAL CONDITIONSDuring the period covered by this report no spectacular outbreak of highly contagious disease has ravaged any large area of the State, and conditions as a whole may be described as normal. Severe losses have occurred in certain localities, notably from anthrax. Rabies has prob¬ ably caused the largest direct loss^ taking the entire State into con¬ sideration.Nevada Livestock Quarantine No. 12, issued by the Governor in the form of a proclamation under date of July 1, 1916, is still in effect and has met quite well the needs of control over the importation of live stock from other States, there being no unusual conditions in other portions of the United States which made special precautions neces¬ sary. In general, its provisions seem to have been lived up to fairly well by the common carriers and others involved. At any event, no serious outbreak of disease has occurred whose origin could be definitely traced to outside sources.Tlie increased volume of work shown in this report over the last one
