REPOET OF THE VETERINARY SURGEOh, 805 



REPORT OF THE VETERINARY SURGEON. 



In compliance with the duties assigned me, with instructions 

 to inquire into the prevalence, nature, and causes of the con- 

 tagious diseases among our domestic animals, I would re- 

 spectfully submit the following report for your consideration. 



The past year lias been an important one in the veterinary 

 annals of our state. And though we have not been visited 

 by a return of the " Foot and Mouth Disease," as was feared, 

 yet in the mean time there have appeared within our borders 

 two other equally contagious disorders which have already 

 caused no inconsiderable loss of live-stock property, and whose 

 latent germs, I fear, have only been too widely sown ; and 

 from the many exposures, which had undoubtedly occurred 

 ere the disease was investigated, further difficulties must in- 

 evitably ensue during the present season, unless retrenchment 

 is enforced. 



The first of these epizootic maladies to which my attention 

 was officially called, was the occurrence of 



FARCY AND GLANDERS 



at Bridgeport. I visited the place, Oct. 3d, at the request of 

 Secretary Gold, and found, upon careful inquiry, that the 

 disease first broke out in McCoy's stable, some time in July ; 

 but it was not considered dangerous by the attending farrier, 

 nor worthy of any alarm, until after several horses had died, 

 and even then they were loth to admit that it was in any de- 

 gree contagious. Thus, in the course of three months, quite 

 a number of exposures had occurred, and some of them showed 

 characteristic symptoms of this disease. Three of these 

 horses, which were supposed to have recovered from their 

 " complaint," so called, I found in pasture, out at Iranistan, 

 on Barn urn's old place. 



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