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ANNUAL REPORT OP THE 



Off. Doc. 



ANTHRAX 



Anthrax is not widely distributed in Pennsylvania. An occasional 

 case only has been reported from fourteen counties. The disease is 

 most common in sections of country surrouuding tanneries. For the 

 past few years the Board has recommended vaccination and done 

 it at State expense on all bovine animals kept in localities where the 

 disease has occurred in previous years. Very little trouble has re- 

 sulted from the vaccination, and in no case has the disease occurred 

 in herds after they have been vaccinated. 



The vaccination should be done early in the spring before animals 

 are turned on infected fields. They should not be turned out or ex- 

 posed to this infection for at least two weeks after the vaccination 

 is finished. 



Owners are warned not to skin animals that have died suddenly 

 or mysteriously in places where anthrax is known to exist. The 

 carcass should be burned to ashes, if possible on the spot where the 

 animal died. If this is not possible it should be buried under eight 

 feet of earth. The body, the grave and territory around it should 

 be well covered with quick lime and fenced off so no other animals 

 can get to it. 



ANTHRAX— 1911 



Berks, 



Bradford, 



Bucks, .-. 



Chester, 



Erie, 



Forest, 



Lancaster, .-. 



McKean, 



Montgomery, 



Potter, _ 



Susquehanna, 



Tioga, 



Warren, 



Westmoreland, 



8 

 5 

 1 

 8 

 6 



12 

 2 



15 

 3 

 6 

 6 

 4 

 1 

 2 



73 



110 



28 



222 



106 



22 



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240 



31 



32 



64 



34 



19 



15 



la 



18 



13 

 12 

 15 

 20 

 4 



BLACKLEG 



Blackleg, or s3'mptomatic anthrax, was reported and vaccinations 

 jferformed in twenty-one counties. The disease is only met in young 

 cattle or those under three to four years old. It can be entirely con- 

 trolled by vaccination. Most stock owners can recognize the disease 

 when it occurs on account of the rapid course, sure death and the 

 black, tarry, frothy appearance of the flesh in certain portions of the 

 body when the skin has been cut into or removed. 



