410 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



Glanders. 

 Rule 6. Horses or mules suspected of having the disease 

 known as glanders or farcy may only remain in the custody of 

 their owners, and in the stalls or on the premises previously occu- 

 pied by them, when, in the judgment of boards of health, such 

 owners can be relied on with confidence, and when such stalls or 

 premises are deemed suitable places for holding such diseased or 

 suspected animals till taken in charge by the Cattle Commissioners. 



Rabies or Hydrophobia. 



Rabies or hydrophobia in dogs is evidently increasing in the 

 community, particularly in thickly populated sections. Scientific 

 investigation has removed much of the superstition formerly prev- 

 alent regarding this disease. It is now generally accepted by 

 the well informed that rabies is a specific, contagious disease, due 

 to the introduction into the system of the bacterial rabies germ 

 from another animal suffering from the malad}-, and that its spread 

 is in no way influenced by stars in the heavens or by " dog-days" 

 weather, but is due to the bite of infected dogs or other animals, 

 and which are as dangerous in cold weather as in the heat of 

 midsummer. Municipal regulations for the restraint of this class 

 of animals should, therefore, be no less operative at one season 

 than at another. 



The Cattle Commissioners, therefore, do hereby make and pub- 

 lish the following order, viz. : Rules 1, 2, 3 and 4 in this circular 

 shall include dogs, and boards of health shall observe and publish 

 6aid rules, and take the same course for the suppression of rabies 

 as for the suppression of other contagious diseases among 

 domestic animals, and shall cause all suspected dogs to be at once 

 quarantined or securely held in restraint till destroyed or released 

 by order of the Cattle Commissioners. 



Tuberculosis. Consumption. 

 During the past few years evidence has been accumulating 

 which increases and strengthens the belief that consumption is a 

 contagious disease common to both man and animals, and that its 

 prevalence in the human family is, to a greater or less extent, due 

 to the use of the milk or flesh of tuberculous cattle. With the 

 unprecedented growth of cities following the improvements in 

 steam transportation, the milk and meats consumed by the majority 

 of the people must necessarily be produced so far from the tables 

 of consumers as to give them no opportunity for personal inspec- 

 tion, or of knowing under what conditions these indispensable 

 animal products may have been produced. 



