No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 



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Stable Tests with Mallein — Concluded. 



1 One sick and not tested; died soon after, of pneumonia. 



2 One horse was killed after first stable test; was not tested with others, on 



account of sickness. 



3 Only one test made, as an accommodation. 



It will be seen from the above table that mallein 1ms been 

 used in 17 stables, located in 15 cities and towns; that 11 

 cases of glanders were reported from these stables before 

 making the test ; that the disease has been eradicated from 

 11, the work is as yet unfinished in 5, and that at the last 

 stable on the list only 1 test has been made. 



There is not the slightest doubt but what glanders in 

 Massachusetts could be very materially decreased and nearly 

 eradicated in a few years' time, if one law applied to the 

 whole State, and a policy was pursued of testing every horse 

 in a stable where glanders was found, holding all reacting 

 horses in quarantine, with permission to use as usual, pro- 

 vided no clinical evidence of glanders developed, and retesting 

 reacting animals every five or six weeks until they ceased to 

 react or were killed. 



Reports from rendering establishments, as provided for by 

 section 111 of chapter 75 of the Revised Laws, as amended 

 by chapter 243, Acts of 1007, continue to prove of great 

 assistance in dealing with glanders, as a number of cases are 

 annually reported through these channels that would other- 

 wise escape the attention of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



