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20 &. PHILIPPINE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
Voz. I JULY, 1906 No. 6 
RINDERPEST. 
By Pau G. Woo.LLey. 
(From the Serum Laboratory of the Bureau of Science.) 
INTRODUCTION, 
Since the earliest days of American occupation in the Philippine 
Islands, rinderpest has claimed the attention of the Government. Its 
ravages and the progressively increasing losses it had caused to the 
industrial community, made the subject so important a one in relation 
to the welfare of the Islands that soon after the organization of the 
rovernment a laboratory was established to prepare serum in quantities 
sufficient to control and, if possible, to eradicate the disease. 
In the first years of this work, when non-immune cattle were more 
easily secured, the opportunities for experimental work on this subject 
were circumscribed, because of the limited number of workers, the labor 
entailed in the inoculation of serum animals and in the preparation of 
serum, the lack of small animals, and of the apparatus for exact ex- 
periments. Such work as was done was performed by Jobling and 
published as a bulletin of this Bureau.t Since the organization of the 
laboratory has been completed, the use of protective inoculation against 
rinderpest has become more general in the Philippine Islands with the 
result that it has been difficult to secure animals which were certainly 
susceptible to this disease and for this second reason the more recent 
"Publications Serum Laboratory, Bureau of Government Laboratories (1903), 
4, and Annual Reports of the Superintendent of Government Laboratories (1903, 
1904), 2, 3. 
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