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existence of Dr. Klein's disease in Queensland. There can be no 

 •doubt whatever that if all the various epidemics amongst poultry 

 in diflerent parts of the world were carefully studied and 

 investigated, a certain number of the outbreaks supposed to be 

 "chicken cholera" would turn out to be " fowl enteritis," and 

 thus prove that the latter was more common and more widely 

 •distributed than is generally supposed. 



ACCOUNT OF THE DISEASE IN QUEENSLAND. 



No. 1 . Epidemic. — In the beginning of October, 1896, I 

 received information from Mr. J. Love, of Enoggera, that a 

 -neighbour of his, Mr. Simpson, was losing fowls every day from 

 what he believed to be chicken cholera, and requested me to visit 

 his place and enquire into the nature of the epidemic, and, if 

 possible, suggest some practical means of mitigating or stamping 

 out the disease. To this I accordingly consented, and on October 

 16th 1 accompanied Mr. Love to the poultry farm of Mr. Simpson. 

 The latter gentleman informed me that during the previous week 

 iibout 80 fowls had died. 



Symptoms.. — The description of the sympLoms is a-> follows : 



The infected birds suddenly b3Come drowsy and sick without 

 Any apparent cause whatever ; they refuse food and water ; lose 

 the use of their legs, and the wings droop ; the feathers become 

 ruffled ; comb remains normal in colour ; in most cases they 

 frequently discharge a greenish yellow mucoid excrement which 

 .soils the feathers. It is most noticeable that when the acute 

 .symptoms set in, the bird rarely lives more than 10 or 12 hours — 

 in fact, not long enough to cause any signs of emaciation to the 

 bird. 



POST MORTEM APPEARANCES OF NO. 1 FOWL. 

 Heart. — Normal looking, but auricles and ventricles distended 



with coagulated blood. 

 LuNus. — Normal in colour, etc. 

 LivKK. — Somewhat enlarged, but although not congested, was 



very friable. 

 Spleen. — Cons-iderably enlarged, being fully three times the 



normal size, but no congestion. * 



