NOTES OX F(nVL EXTEIUTIS IN 

 BHISJUNE. 



By C. J. POUND, F. R. M. S., 



[GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGIST.] 



I'a'iiil licfiiif till' Itni/iil Siiricti/ iif (Jni'r)isl(inil, lltli 1 h'cniiln'r, 18^)7, 



During my investigations into the various outbreaks of chicken 

 cholera in. and around Brisbane, I succeeded in denionstratingf 

 the existence of another disease among poultry, namely, "Fowl 

 Enteritis," which, in the two epidemics I have examined, 

 assumed a very virulent form and resulted in a heavy mortality 

 among the affected fowls. 



HISTORICAL. 



The first to discover and name this disease was Dr. E. Klein, 

 F.R.S., of London. 



In his book on the etiology and pathology of diseases 

 affecting birds. Dr. Klein says : " During the early part of the 

 the year 1889, I became informed of the existence of an acute 

 and fatal epidemic disease amongst fowls on a poultry farm in 

 Kent, in England, which was represented tome a^ being Chicken 

 Cholera; but after careful microscopical examination, cultivation, 

 and animal experiments, it very soon became evident that the 

 disease, although similar to, was in many points different from, 

 chicken cholera ; therefore I have called it ' fowl enteritis.' " 



As far as I can gather from carefully perusing various books 

 on bacteriology and the proceedings of dift'eren' sjientilic 

 societies, there does not appear to have been any further 

 recorded accounts of this disease, either in Englan I or ou th? 

 Continent, since that described by Dr. Klein in IHS;) ; th n-efore 

 it is somewhat spscially interesting to have discoverod the 



