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ITo. 4. East One hundred and twentieth street and Fourth avenue. 

 Acute cases. 



* jSTo. 5. East One hundred and twenty-first street and Fourth avenue. 

 Acute cases. 



Lo7}g Island. — The whole western end of this island, as far back as 

 Jamaica, is more or less infected. The stables of GaU", Fleischmann & 

 Co., of Blissville, originally the hot-bed of the disease, are now perfectly 

 free from all contagion. Jamaica is located some lOi miles back, there- 

 fore the infected district includes Brooklyn, New (Jtrecht, Flatbush, 

 Gravesend, Flatlands, and I^ew Lots, in Kings County, and Long 

 Island City, Kewtown, Jamaica, Flushing, and Creedmoor, in Queens 

 County. 



Suffolk County. — At the extreme eastern end of the island are exten- 

 sive unfenced ranges, used as common pastures. The plague prevailed 

 among herds grazing on these ranges, but it is now believed they are 

 thoroughly freed from it, as the last known cases were destroyed at 

 Montauk August 28, 1879, and at Bellport August 11, 1879. This por- 

 tion of the island has been subjected to numerous examinations, and is 

 now regarded as entirely free from the pla,gue. 



Staten Island. — A year ago one case of the plague was discovered on 

 this island. The animal was killed. No case has since appeared, and 

 the island is now regarded as absolutely free from the disease. 



On the 12th and 13th days of February, in company with one of the 

 New York inspectors, I visited several stables in Brooklyn. I found 

 several chronic cases in these stables, but no acute ones. At Johnson 

 avenue slaughter-house I was shown a portion of a characteristically- 

 diseased lung, which had been taken from an animal killed a few hours 

 previously. 



On February 14 I visited the stables of Mr. Lang, One hundred and 

 ninth street and Fourth avenue, New York, where 1 found three cows 

 suffering with the plague. One of these was a very acute case, and I 

 was informed had been afflicted but three days. This and one of the 

 others had been condemned to the offal dock. Mr. Froudie, a neighbor 

 of Mr. Lang, lost a cow on the 12th day of February by the disease. A 

 week before he had bought a cow from a dealer named Louis, and the 

 cow that died was taken sick on that day that this cow came to his 

 stable. The nearest stable to Mr. Froudie's is on One hundred and 

 twelfth street and Fourth avenue. Mr. Froudie had owned the cow he 

 lost for eight months. Lang purchased liis sickest cow from a dealer 

 named Franke some four or five weeks previous. She was a " two-titter," 

 and on that account Franke knocked oft $5 on her price. She never did 

 well. The other two commenced coughing three or four days before my 

 visit. 



On the afternoon of the same day I visited the offal dock and wit- 

 nessed tlie autopsy of Lang's cows, alluded to above. Both cases re- 

 vealed well-marked lesions of acute i)leuro-pneumonia contagiosa. One 

 of the animals, which showed a temperature of 105° Fahr., and 36 respi- 

 rations per mjnute, had the whole posterior lobe of the left lung consol- 

 idated and strongly adherent to the costal jileura. The right lung was 

 healthy. The pericardium was thickened to half an inch. In both lungs 

 of the second cow were found a number of small isolated spots of the 

 cliaracteristic lesions of the disease, the largest being about the size of a 

 double fist. Their borders were well defined, and the intermediate por- 

 tions of the lung-tissue appeared perfectly healthy to the naked eye. 



* lUe iast-iiamed stables were infected from One liuudied and twentieth street. 



