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Where individuals report, the cases are largely doubtful 

 and the report is made that other opinions may be had, and 

 thereby relieve not only the owner but the attending veter- 

 inarian of all anxiety as speedily as the circumstances will 

 allow. 



The reports of the renderers continue to be of great value. 

 They make possible the better disinfection of infected prem- 

 ises by calling the attention of the Cattle Bureau to them, 

 and also lead to the discovery of a number of other cases 

 that maj^ not even be suspected by the owner. 



The financial loss continues very large, $60,000 annually 

 being probably not a heavy estimate. There are several in- 

 dividual losses ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 each. 



The danger to human beings is still evident, as shown by 

 the death of at least one person during the j^ear, and pos- 

 sibly two. The latter case is worth mentioning, as it may 

 have been a case of glanders. A man having close connec- 

 tion with stable work died with an unknown disease. Glan- 

 ders in the stable has since been very prevalent, and one or 

 more old chronic cases have been found among the horses. 

 The attending family physician has since expressed the 

 opinion that the man may have died of glanders contracted 

 in the stable. 



The o-reatest danoer seems to be in not recoffnizino- the 

 chronic cases. In one instance a man dying from glanders 

 contracted the disease from a horse or horses (three having 

 it in this stable) in which the history and autopsy showed 

 that the disease had been of long standing, while the physi- 

 cal signs were not very marked. In another instance a case 

 of a supposed diseased tooth proved to be a case of glanders. 

 In this stable single cases of glanders had been taken out hy 

 the owner, on the advice of his own veterinarian, for two or 

 three years ; finally, several developing together caused a 

 more careful examination and test of the whole stable, when 

 the above case was found and the animal killed. 



The following list shows the cases or suspected cases of 

 glanders and farcy reported by towns for 1901, compared 

 with those in 1902 ; it also indicates where the disease has 

 disappeared and where new outbreaks have occurred, and 

 the increase or decrease in various places : — 



