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DEPAETMENTAL REPORTS. 



Number of animals inspected at time of landing in London, Liverpool, and 

 Glasgoui, and loss in transit, fiscal year 1902. 



INSPECTION OF IMPORTED ANIMALS. 



The numbers and kinds of animals imported from Mexico and 

 inspected at ports of entry along the international boundary line are 

 shown in the table following: 



Importation of Mexican animals, fiscal year 1903. 



There were also inspected animals imported in bond as follows : At 

 Nogales, 640 cattle, destined to Lower California; at El Paso, 8,622 

 cattle, 26 horses, 4 mules, and 2 asses, destined to Canada. 



Through ports on the seacoast animals not subject to quarantine 

 were imported as follows: 



A statement of other animals imported through ports along the 

 Canadian border and through quarantine stations on the Atlantic 

 coast \vill be found in the report of the "Miscellaneous division." 



CONTROL OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



Southern cattle inspection. — The supervision of the movement of 

 cattle from the area quarantined on account of Southern, or Texas, or 

 splenetic, fever of cattle, due to the presence of the tick {BoophUus 

 annulatus) which carries the infection, involved the proper yarding 

 in the quarantine divisions of the different stock yards of 1,126,490 

 head of cattle during the quarantine season of 1901. To transport 

 these cattle required 42,354 cars, each of which had to be placarded, 

 and all of the waybills, manifests, and bills of lading accompanying 

 the shipments had to state that the cattle were Southern cattle. The 

 number of cars cleaned and disinfected was 46,736, 



