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Several infected cows were brought from one of the western counties to Columbiana, 

 where they all died, but did not communicate the disease to others. A few cases appeared 

 in Hamilton County ; ten or twelve deaths occurred in Greene, from exposure to passing 

 Texan stock ; and in Wyandot a loss of six occurred in two car-loads brought from 

 Chicago. 



New York. This State received many Texas cattle, some of which were in condition 

 to communicate disease, yet such were the precautions taken by the State commissioners, 

 Messrs. M. R. Patrick, Lewis P. Alden. and J. Stanton Gould, and the metropolitan 

 board of health, that outbreaks occurred at only few points. Quarantines were estab 

 lished at Buffalo, Erie, and Jameston, ar.d a rigid inspection of all animals coming into 

 the State by rail was vigorously enforced. 



A lot of eighteen Illinois cattle was brought to Sing Sing, July 30, six of which 

 died in a few days, and others, believed to be diseased, were slaughtered and disposed of. 



A lot of sixty-five western cattle, driven from West Albany, August 9, lost one at 

 Copake, Columbia County, August 17, and four at Millerton, Dutchess County, between 

 August 14 and 19. 



At Campville, on the Erie road, the disease appeared August 9, and eighteen or 

 twenty head of western cattle, taken from the cars on the previous day, died within a 

 few hours. 



A lot of eighty-three head was shipped, August 3, from Arrow Rock, Saline County, 

 Missouri, and at St. Louis two cattle were added to the herd, which arrived at Bull s 

 Head, New York, August 19. On the 22d, the two from St. Louis were taken sick and 

 subsequently killed, revealing strong indications of the disease. It does not appear that 

 any of the eighty-three were infected. 



One of a lot of nineteen head of Illinois cattle was killed at Bull s Head, September 

 19, and found to be diseased. The others were quarantined, but none were diseased. 



September 12, twelve cattle died at Pier 12, East River, on the steamer Pah Kee, 

 and subsequently five more; the remaining twenty-three survived the quarantine. The 

 post mortem appearances were unmistakably those of the Texan cattle disease. 



During September, isolated cases occurred which proved to be identical in character 

 with those already mentioned. 



Travel-worn Texas cattle were quarantined and subsequently discharged. When 

 killed for beef, the spleens were generally larger and darker than those of northern 

 cattle, and old cicatrices of the abomasum appeared, and signs of erosions and con 

 gestions . 



In October, &quot;a number of sudden deaths&quot; occurred at Hamptonburgh, in Orange 

 County, attributed to the Texas cattle disease, assumed to have been taken from other 

 native cattle brought from Painesville and other points in Ohio. Dr. Morris, Mr. Gould, 

 and Dr. Montfort, made post mortem examinations of two heifers, and Dr. M. afterward 

 examined a cow; and these gentlemen entertained no doubt that this was the Texas 

 disease. The commissioners report the fact as follows : &quot;August 25, forty-four cows and 

 heifers, purchased at different places in Ohio, arrived at Hamptonburg, and one died 

 a few hours after arrival. Pour days after, two of the cows were turned into the dairy 

 pasture of John Moul, where they remained till September 1, and, on the 8th, one of 

 them died, the other on the 10th. On the 12th, thirteen days after exposure, one of the 



