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sible iu tlu'Si' cases to obtain cultui-es or suitable material for 

 laboratory examination, and so it is not known whether the organ- 

 ism producing this form of hemorrhagic septicaemia is identical 

 with that which caused the outbreak in Carbon count}' that was 

 studied bacteriologically. An outbreak of hemorrhagic septicaemia 

 of the exanthematic type which occurred in Luzerne county in July 

 and .\ugust has been studied and reported upon by Drs, Hogg and 

 Phipps of Wilkes-Barre. In this outbreak ten cattle belonging to 

 two owners died. The disease pursued in these cases a rapid course, 

 killing in one, two or three days. The symptoms were depression, 

 weakness, disinclination to move, loss of appetite, staggering gait, 

 bloody discharge from the nose, blood evacuation from the -bowels, 

 swelling about the throat and beneath the jaws. In some of them, 

 leakage of blood through the skin on the side of the chest or abdo- 

 men was observed. In some, swelling of the legs or beneath the 

 trunk, and cessation of milk flow was seen. Similar outbreaks have 

 been described in the adjoining county of Lackawanna and in 

 Wayne county by Dr. Jacob Helmer, of Scranton. 



Whether, as seems probable, the organism of this disease may 

 live from season to season, has not yet been proved, but in the 

 absence of positive information on this point, it has seemed wise 

 to recommend and require the destruction by fire or b}"^ deep burial 

 of the carcass of all animals dying of this disease. Where this 

 malady has occurred on settled farms and in or about farm build- 

 ings, disinfection of the most thorough character that could pos- 

 sibly be employed has been recommended. In some instances the 

 disease has occurred several years in succession among cattle on 

 the same farm or on the same mountain cattle range, and has then 

 disappeared and the cattle have remained exempt. It is, neverthe- 

 less, true that the disease is very much more, prevalent in some 

 parts of the State than in others. In come districts it seems to be 

 stationary and occurs in greater or less jjrevaleuce every year. 



Here is an important and wide and, probably, profitable field for 

 research work. 



liahies. Rabies is known to have existed in the past year in the 

 following counties: Allegheny, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bucks, Car- 

 bon, Centre, Chester, Clinton, Clearfield, Columbia, Crawford, Dela- 

 ware, Erie, Franklin, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Luzerne, Lycoming, 

 McKean, Montgomer}', Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, 

 Philadelphia, Potter, Schuylkill, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, 

 AVestmoreland, Wyoming and York. Heads of animals from nearly 

 all of the counties listed above have been sent to the laboratory of 

 the State Live Stock Sanitary Board for examination and diagnosis, 

 with the result that it has been ])roven by microscopic examination, 

 confirnKH] in numerous instances by inoculation lests, th.nt i-abics 



