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In one instance, in Qiiincy, an autopsy on a pig that died 

 sliowed it to have been suflering from tuberculosis, and it is 

 probable that the others which died on this farm also had 

 this disease. Another outbreak, reported in Dracut, where 

 the pigs had some lung trouble, appears to have been due 

 quite as much to thread worms (^strong ylus paradoxus) in 

 the lungs as to swine plague, although the swine plague 

 organism was found by Dr. Frothingham in a specimen of 

 lung ; yet these worms were present in such numbers in two 

 cases as to readily account for the sickness among the swine. 

 A specimen sent from the lungs of a pig in West Brookfield 

 was found to contain similar parasites to those found in the 

 Dracut pigs. 



Quarantines or reports of cases have been received from 

 24 farms in 19 cities and towns, while in 1003 36 reports 

 were received, — a falling oif of 12. Three quarantines 

 were sent in because of tuberculosis, and one lot reported as 

 having swine plague was found to have tuberculosis. 



Two swine, one in Fairhaven and one in Charlton, were 

 found on autopsy to have tuberculosis. On a farm in Pitts- 

 field where the barns were burned with cattle that were 

 known to have been suffering from tuberculosis, quite a 

 large number of swine were quarantined in order to prevent 

 the pigs from being sold to neighboring farmers, but they 

 were released after six had been killed for pork and found 

 to be entirely free from disease. 



In addition to swine that were quarantined for tuberculo- 

 sis, there have been quite a number condemned this fall and 

 winter as unfit for food because of their beino- infected with 

 this disease. It seems to be quite common among swine 

 kept in contact with tuberculous cattle, or fed skim milk 

 and buttermilk from creameries supplied by tul:)erculous 

 cows. A creamery owner in New Hampshire sent 100 pigs 

 to one of the pork packers near Boston last spring, and 19, 

 or nearly 20 per cent, were found to be so badly diseased 

 with tuberculosis as to be unfit for anything but the render- 

 ing tank. 



In outbreaks of hog cholera or swine plague the quaran- 

 tine is continued until the outbreak is over and the owner 



