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The next clay, at a meeting of the Board, Mr. Cheever was will- 

 ing that the ten horses Mr. Stockbridge had proposed on the 25th 

 to release on this day should be relieved ; but now Mr. Stock- 

 bridge is willing to wait until after the reports of Drs. Liautard 

 and Huidekoper are at hand ; and the meeting was adjourned 

 subject to the call of the veterinarian. , 



The reports of Drs. Liautard and Huidekoper were presented 

 to the Board Nov. 7, and they were accepted and placed on 

 file, Mr. Cheever voting against it that day, but subsequently 

 approving Dr. Liautard's bill, thereby making it a unanimous 

 vote. 



New York, Oct. 31, 1887. 

 To the Cattle Commissioners of Massachusetts. 



Gentlemen : — Having been requested by you, through Dr. J. F. Win- 

 chester, to visit in Cambridge, Mass., a nvunber of horses belonging to 

 the Cambridge and Boston Railroad Comi^any, and give my oi^inion as 

 to the prevalence of glanders among them, and to what extent the dis- 

 ease, if any, prevailed, I went to Boston on Oct. 30, and in com- 

 pany with Dr. R. Huidekoper of Philadelphia, was brought by Dr. 

 Winchester to the stables of the company, where we met a number of 

 gentlemen, officers of the road, ]\Ir. Cheever of your Board, with several 

 veterinarians of Boston, and there I successfully examined the sixty- 

 seA'en animals v^hich Avere quarantined by your order, and carefully 

 noted tlicir condition as they were brought to my consideration, one 

 after the other. 



Though the history of this outbreak is not very familiar to me, I must 

 say that I have been given to understand that the stables of the Cam- 

 bridge and Boston Railroad 'Company have not been free from that 

 disease for some years back, — according to one of the gentlemen 

 present at the time of the examination, an officer of the road, I believe, 

 for some two years, according t6 Dr. Winchester, for some twenty, — 

 and that recently several cases of chronic and acute glanders hac' 

 been detected amongst the liorses, and they were destroyed on that 

 account. I was, besides, informed that most all of the quarantined ani- 

 mals belong to various stables of the companj^ and that, if I remember 

 right, with one or two exceptions, in which horses were mates, all the 

 others were single horses taken out of teams, in which the mate was 

 left apparently free from disease, and now at work. 



The first fact, establishing the existence of the disease for some time 

 back, is not without importance ; and, though I have been principally 

 guided in my decision by the symptoms observed, the weight brought to 

 bear by this liistory cannot be entirely ovei'looked, when deciding the 

 question of the suspicious condition of a number of the horses. 



I now beg to present you with my report of the condition in which I 

 fomid the horses, and the conclusions the same has brought me. 



Before doing this, however, I hope you will allow me to make a few 

 remarks on the disease known as glanders, and its symptomatology, as 



