SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



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Even within this Park, conducted as it is with unlimited regard 

 to expense and singleness of purpose to produce surroundings 

 calculated to promote the life, freedom, and happiness of ani- 

 mals, conditions and injuries are oftentimes brought about by 

 reason of the natural ferocity and agility of certain species, which 

 only too frequently involve even our keepers in mishap. Space 

 will not permit, and it would be quite foreign to the purpose of 

 this report for me to enter into general details of all cases under 

 observation. I will therefore briefly name the various cases 

 which have occurred, and take up in greater detail such con- 

 ditions, as from their particular mortality or liability to infect 

 others must necessarily be considered of prime importance in 

 forming our retrospect of past proceedings, and formulating lines 

 of activity for the treatment and prevention of similar or allied 

 conditions which may appear in future, particularly as to the 

 proper mode of successfully applying our resources that they may 

 be made readily available to the various kinds of animals under 

 our care. 



The medical cases, which I name strictly in order of their im- 

 portance rather than as to frequency among the animals, have 

 been as follows : 



1st, Gastro-enteritis. 

 2d, Infective colitis. 

 3d, Intestinal catarrh. 

 4th, Tuberculosis. 

 5th, Intestinal parasites. 

 6th, Syngamus trachealis 



(birds). 

 7th, Bird cholera. 

 8th, Verminous bronchitis. 

 9th, Sarcoptic mange. 



loth, Gregarinosis (rabbits), 

 nth, Group paralysis. 

 I2th, Pernicious anemia. 

 13th, Convulsions. 

 14th, Fish poisoning. 

 15th, Septicaemia. 

 i6th, Rainey's corpuscles (elk). 

 17th, Hodgkins' disease. 

 1 8th, Subcutaneous parasites 

 (birds). 



Injuries and conditions requiring surgical treatment may be 

 reported in their relative order of frequency, as follows : 



1st, Wounds. 

 2d, Abscesses. 

 3d, Contusions. 

 4th, Fractures. 

 5th, Amputations. 



6th, Distorted feet. 



7th, Neoplasms. 



8th, Granular conjunctivitis. 



9th, Horn punctures. 



