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were at once placed iu a large stable in t^e city, but almost immediately 

 traiiBlened to a smaller one to guard against tbe possibility of couta- 

 gioii. Two days later tlie disease sbowed itself in the horses occu- 

 pying tlie larger stable, and iu three days all of these were attacked. 

 Meanwhile it had appeared in the smaller stable as well. ]^o other cases 

 are kuovrn to have occurred in the city until October 20, and soon after 

 this it became general. Two of the imported horses were well enough 

 to work ironi the first, and "were constantly on the streets in the business 

 part of the town. 



On October 14 it was reported iu Buffalo, Kew York, and was general 

 by October 21. By October 17 Rochester had half its horses ill, aud 

 ^Vest Batavia had been attacked. 



On October 19 it existed in Syracuse in newly-arrived Canadian 

 horses ; on the 22d one hundred to two hundred were sick iu boarding 

 and livery stables, and it spread with great rai)idity iu the country 

 around. 



As earl^^ as October 20 it was reported in Warren County, Peuusji- 

 vauia ; on October 21 at Depauville, Jefferson County, Attica, Vv'yoming 

 County, aud Steuben County, New York, and Keene, ISTew Hampshire. 

 On October 22 at Brooklyn, New Y'ork, Jersey City, and Boston. On 

 October 23 it was prevalent atNewburgh andiu the country round New 

 Y^ork, in the tovrns situated on the New Y'ork Central Eailroad, from 

 Syracuse to Albany inclusive ; in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut ; 

 in Block Island, in Providence, aud Newport, Ehode Island ; in Lunen- 

 burgh, Vermont; in Bangor, Portland, and Augusta, Maine; inWashing- 

 tonand Carrolltou, Ohio, and iu Chicago, Illinois. On October 24 Lexing- 

 ton, Sanilac County, Michigan, and Baltimore, Maryland, were affected. 

 On October 25 the first cases appeared in Oswego, New Y'ork, also iu 

 ClarkstoAvn, Bucklaud County, and in Livingston County, New York 5 

 Westtield, Massachusetts; Lewistowu, Bethel, Topsham, and South 

 Parsonfield, Maine, (at the latter place, which is thirty miles from a city, 

 the first case was a horse from a city stable, and a week later a colt in 

 the same stable.) It was also reported at Corry, Pennsylvania, at this 

 date. On October 2G it reached Sheridan, Chautauqua County, New 

 Y'ork, and Pontiac, Michigan. On October 27 it attacked Glens Falls, 

 Catskill, aud Poughkeepsie, New Y'ork, and Eockville, Tolland County, 

 Connecticut ; in the last case it was supposed from Springfield, Massa- 

 chusetts. On October 28 the Watertown street-cars were stopped, and 

 the disease had just appeared at Binghamton, New Y'ork, Patersou, 

 New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, District of 

 Columbia, October 28 ; in the last place in sick horses brought from the 

 North. 



On October 20 it was announced in Washington County, Vermont ; 

 in West Chester County, Port Jervis, and Carmel, New Y'ork ; at Titus- 

 ville, Pennsylvania, and Columbus, Ohio. 



On October 30 it was reported for the first time iu Peekskill and 

 Nyack, New York. On the 31st it appeared in Little Genesee, in Bo- 

 sendale, and Deposit, and in Ithaca, New York, having existed since the 

 25th in Trnmansburgh, ten miles to the northwest of the place last named, 

 and slowly reached Varna, three miles to the east of Ithaca, on Novem- 

 ber G. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Hope, Pennsylvania, were 

 reached on October 31, the first of these places by five or six horses 

 brought from New York City to the livery stables of JMessrs. Moreland 

 and Mitchell ; the street-cars had to be stopped on November 5 for the 

 lack of horses. Yet even up to this date Belmont's horses at Babylon, 

 Long Island, and McDaniels's, at Saratoga, were still reported sound. 



