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piroplasmosis for anthrax. In France it occurs in the Departments 

 of Manche, Calvados, Oise, Nord, Indre, Cantal, Cote-d'Or, 

 Vendee, etc. The accurate determination of infected districts is 

 desirable, as this disease can be efficiently controlled. As the result 

 of careful observation it has been noticed that native cattle sufier 

 httle, whereas imported cattle are specially attacked. They need 

 not necessarily be imported from a distance, the fact of their 

 coming from a non-infected district being sufficient. Cattle brought 

 from infected districts are naturally immune. As a general rule 

 calves seem immune in infected localities, probably through acquiring 

 immunity during their first year. 



Extincion de las moscas. [Fly-destruction.] — Gaceta Rural, Buenos 

 Aires, vii, no. 81, April 1914, pp. 726-727. 



The Chief Medical Officer of Rosario (province of Santa Fe) has 

 drawn up the following regulations for consideration by the municipal 

 authorities : — Fly- destruction is to be obligatory within the munici- 

 pality in all factories, institutions and buildings of a pubhc or semi- 

 pubhc character ; in these places all organic matter or refuse is to be 

 treated by methods prescribed by the medical authorities ; all food- 

 stuffs are to be suitably protected from flies ; warning and advisory 

 notices are to be posted up by the medical authorities ; fines are to be 

 infhcted for non-compliance. . 



TowNSEND (C. H. T.). El "reservoir" de la verruga. [The Reser- 

 voir of Verruga.] — Noticias, Lima, no. 42, 12th April 1914, p. 2. 



The author states that he has discovered a small lizard to be the 

 reservoir of verruga. This reptile is found on stone walls and rocks 

 in the verruga zone and outside it. Smears, stained with Giemsa, 

 taken from lizards captured in the Quebrada de Verrugas, revealed 

 bodies apparently identical with those of Bartonia bacilliformis. 

 They are plentiful in the red corpuscles, fairly numerous in the blood 

 plasma, and occur in the marrow, liver and spinal marrow. They 

 have the appearance of small rods or granules of the same size, form, 

 colour and structure as Bartonia. The spherical granules appear 

 to constitute the infective stage. The author has found the same bodies 

 in Phlebotoinus from the Quebrada de Verrugas, in microtome sections 

 of verruga papules from man and dog, and in the blood of dogs, rabbits, 

 monkeys, etc., infected by Phlebotoinus. If they are not identical 

 with Bartonia, there is httle doubt of their connection with verruga. 

 It is notable that these bodies are seen in the small lizards captured 

 m the Quebradas de Chosica, which are free from Phlebofomus and 

 outside the verruga zone. A few only, and those in the form of ill- 

 defined rods, are found in the blood of rats, dogs, asses, owls and 

 pigeons from the Quebrada de Verruga. As in this district the 

 Peruvian hare does not Uve near houses, PhUbotomus cannot be in- 

 fected from this animal. In the Quebrada de Verruga Phlebofomus 

 hides during the day in stone walls near the houses where the hzards 

 are also found, and the transmission of infection must certainly take 

 place there. 



