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before, suddenly died at Niumalu, close to Mr. J. H. Coney's 

 place. Dr. Glaisyer made a post-mortem examination and could 

 find little or nothing to indicate anthrax. Smear preparations 

 from the spleen, made, stained and examined microscopically by 

 himself, he declared negative. Later on Dr. Kuhns telephoned 

 him saying that slides prepared by himself from the same piece of 

 spleen revealed plenty of anthrax organisms. 



I was called in consultation in the case by Dr. Glaisyer. The 

 slides presented to me for examination were filled with bacteria 

 bearing a strong resemblance to anthrax. There was certainly 

 no comparison between the large number of anthrax-like organ- 

 isms in this slide and the post-mortem lesions as described to me 

 by Dr. Glaisyer. Taking everything into consideration I declared 

 Niumalu district in a state of quarantine, and gave full instruc- 

 tions re guards, rounding up cattle, etc. A few days later, when 

 the corral was repaired and all stock in the valley rounded up, 

 Dr. Glaisyer and myself injected 96 cattle, 61 horses, 1 donkey, 

 2 carabao, a total of 160 head, using Cutter simultaneous vac- 

 cine. No further deaths had occurred, and there was no indi- 

 cation that any more would occur. 



Anthrax Situation on Oaliu. 



At a joint meeting of the Board of Health and the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, it was decided to lessen the quarantined 

 area, drawing the lines in closer to the Farm dairy, and so re- 

 leasing from quarantine the Japanese dairies, thus allowing them 

 to market their products. To this effect the following notice was 

 promulgated : 



NOTICE OF CHANGE IN ANTHRAX QUARANTINE AREA. 



Notice is hereby given that, effective at noon on June 5, 1917, the 

 quarantine area described in Sec. 2 of Rule XI of the Division of Animal 

 Industry of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 approved by the Governor on May 25, 1917, is reduced to the area de- 

 scribed as follows: 



Beginning at the west corner of Wilder avenue and Metcalf street, 

 and running as follows: 



1. Northeasterly 765 feet more or less to the northeast corner of 



Metcalf and Marques streets; 



2. Easterly 131 feet along Metcalf street; 



3. Southerly 256 feet across Metcalf street and along the west side of 



12 ft.' lane; 



4. Easterly 11 feet across lane to fence; 



5. Southerly 230 feet along fence to stone wall on top of bluff; 



6. Southeasterly 190 feet down face of bluff and around base of slop- 



ing land to sm.all bridge; 



7. Southeasterly 560 feet along ditch along base of sloping land to 



premises of K. Matsumoto; 



8. Southwesterly 40 feet along fence along premises of K. Matsu- 



moto; 



9. Southeasterly 117 feet along same; 



10. Southwesterly 511 feet more or less along the northwest side of 

 lane to Beretania avenue; 



