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of Health to inspect the different large public stables of the city in 

 relation to glanders, as the disease had become so prevalent as to 

 cause numerous complaints to be made. At the same time I was 

 requested by the president of one of our large horse-railroad com- 

 panies to call on him. Upon visiting him, I examined and con- 

 demned in one day thirty-six horses, and, after impressing upon him 

 the dangers to which the entire stock of the company were exposed, 

 I was authorized to extirpate the disease from their stables. I in- 

 spected the entire stock (over twelve hundred horses) weekly, then 

 semi-monthly, then every three months, until, after over nine months 

 of hard work, I finished my task, not having found any more gland- 

 ered horses in my last three visits. The company lost by this pro- 

 cedure some three hundred ho?'ses. 



" On retiring from duty, I warned the president of the danger 

 that existed of the disease again appearing, and endeavored to impress 

 upon him the necessity of professional inspection of the entire stock 

 weekly, or at least semi-monthly, as is done in the large Continental 

 companies. Whether my advice was regarded or not, is shown by 

 the fact that glanders again appeared, and is still existing in the 

 same stables to quite a large extent. 



"Another company also requested my services. It had about 

 nine hundred horses, and in about the same length of time, and 

 after similar work, I condemned to death about one hundred horses. 

 I also gave the same advice on this occasion which I had given to 

 the first-named company, and it was followed to such an extent 

 that I am not aware that there is a single case of glanders among 

 the horses of this company to-day. 



" In another stable, which I visited by request of the Board of 

 Health, where there were over two hundred horses, twenty-five of 

 them were condemned at two visits. These animals were kept in 

 the hospital of the stable, and were under the care of the so-called 

 ' doctor ' (!). I had no authority to subject the entire stock to revis- 

 ion, but. if I had, I am sure that the results would have been fully 

 equal to those of the other examinations. I am perfectly sure that 

 I could find numerous cases of glanders among the horses of this 

 company to-day. 



" Is it not indeed surprising that such a condition of things should 

 be allowed to exist ; and how can one comprehend that the president 

 of a company could so overlook the interests of the stockholders as 

 to allow so many diseased horses to remain among those of the com- 

 pany, without continually being on the watch to prevent such dis- 

 asters ? Let us take, for example, the first case : 300 horses, valued 



