24 EEPOET OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



To butchers and owners of glue factories and rendering works. To all receivers of 



dead animals. 



SIR: To discover each center of lung-plague infection it is necessary that every 

 bovine animal dying within the quarantined district extending 6 miles outward from 

 the city hall should have its lungs examined by a Government inspector. 



You are therefore ordered not to receive at your factory or works, or for conveyance 

 thereto, any dead cattle, young or old, unless accompanied by a permit signed by 

 the chief veterinary inspector of Maryland, and to hold such dead cattle without 

 opening them or removing any chain, lock, or tag from the carcass until such in- 

 spector is present. 



Dr. ROBERT WARD, 



Chief Veterinary Inspector of Maryland. 

 Approved : 



STATE LIVE-STOCK SANITARY BOARD, 



T. ALEX. SETH, Secretary. 



NOTICE TO COW DEALERS IN THE BALTIMORE DISTRICT. 



All persons dealing in cows or other cattle \vithin the Baltimore quarantined dis- 

 trict, extending 6 miles in all directions from the city hall, must reserve their 

 stables for the reception of cattle from outside of said district. Cattle from healthy 

 districts may be moved to the dealers' stables upon procuring the necessary permit, 

 and may then by permit be moved to the stables of the buyer, but they can not again 

 be moved from stable to stable. Cattle dealers wishing to trade fresh cows for fat 

 or dry ones will be granted permits to take such fat or dry cows direct to slaughter, 

 or to the quarantine pens at the State scales, but not to their own stables. 

 Peddling cows is strictly prohibited. 



Dr. ROBERT WARD, 



Chief Veterinary Inspector of Maryland. 

 Approved : 



STATE LIVE-STOCK SANITARY BOARD, 



T. ALEX. SETH, Secretary. 



The work of the Bureau in Maryland progressed very satisfac- 

 torily under these regulations. The State veterinarian and the live- 

 stock sanitary board have co-operated very cordially in enforcing 

 them, and have done much to secure their efficiency. No bovine 

 animal can be moved from or to any premises in the city of Balti- 

 more without having been inspected by a veterinarian in the employ 

 of the Bureau; every cow that dies in any herd in that city is known 

 to these inspectors and is examined as to the cause of its death; every 

 bovine animal in that district is numbered, and its number and the 

 herd to which it belongs is recorded. It is impossible, therefore, for 

 the disease to exist in a herd for any considerable time before its 

 presence there is detected. 



About all of the old infected herds have been destroyed, and the 

 cases which are now found are due to recent infection. Such cases 

 are becoming fewer, and it is believed that this decrease will continue 

 and become more apparent with each month in the future. 



From January 1 to December 31, 1887, there were inspected in 

 Maryland 5,704 herds, containing 57,858 head of cattle. Post-mortem 

 examinations were made on 2,788 animals, of which 1,137 were found 

 to be affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The total number of stables 

 disinfected was 145. The number of animals affected with pleuro- 

 pneumonia slaughtered in Maryland since July 1, 1886, is 1,442, and 

 of exposed animals (all slaughtered since March 3, 1887), 1,564, making 

 a total of 3,006. The owners received from the Department as com- 

 pensation for the diseased animals $33,759.01, an average of $23:41 

 per head; for the exposed animals they received $41,397.71, an aver- 

 age of $26.46 per head. 



