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INOCULATION TOR TLEURO-rNEUMONIA. 



UEPOUT by the Chief Inspector of Stock, shewing the 

 result of the Enquhy, as to the effect of Inoculation, for 

 Pleuro-pncumonia, October, 1869. 



Ageeeablt to iustructions from the Honorable the Minister for Lands 

 of April last, 1,200 copies of the Circular and series of questions, forming 

 Appendix A to this Report, have been distributed by the Inspectors of sheep 

 among owners possessed of more than 200 head of cattle. 



To those circulars and questions 501 replies have been received, of 

 which 279 are from owners who inoculated their herds, and 222 from those 

 who have not done so. In the case of the former, the greater part of these 

 replies convey the required information, but in many of the latter they are 

 both meagre and incomplete. 



For the satisfaction of the public, the replies of owners to the more 

 important questions, such as 1, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, and 15, in the returns of 

 inoculated herds, and 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, in those of the uuin- 

 oculated have been printed in the owner's own words, and form Appendices 

 B and C hereto. The answers to questions G, 7, S, 9, 10, and 11 — relating 

 to the mode of prociiring the virus and of inoculating, have, in all the returns 

 except ]N"o. 279* been omitted, as they contain no better information on these 

 points tlian the directions given in the Eeport on Pleuro-pneumonia, laid 

 before Parliament in 18G8. 



Tabulated lists of these returns by owners of inoculated and unin- 

 oculated herds have also been prepared, and form Appendices D and E. They 

 give the substance of the more important replies by owners, and shew Avhether 

 they are in favour of, or against, inoculation, and whether they apj^rove or 

 disapprove of compulsory inoculation where the cattle are infected. 



Of these lists, again, two abstracts, forming Appendices F and Gr, have 

 been drawn up, to show at a glance the result of the enquiry as regards 

 inoculation and legislation. 



By Appendix F it will be seen that with respect to owners icJio 

 inoculated their herds there are 25 neither for nor against inoculation, 237 

 in favour of it, and 17 against it ; or ahout 14 for, to 1 against, inoculation. 

 Of the returns by owners icho did not inoculate there are 75 neither for nor 

 against inoculation, 102 in favour of it, and 45 against it ; or alout 7 for, to 

 3 against, inoculation. While taking hoth classes of returns together there 

 are in all 100 neither for nor against inoculation ; 339 in favour of it, and G2 

 against it ; or, njjon the tchole returns about 5^ for, to 1 against, inoculation. 



* The answers to questions 6. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 of this Return have been given because the operation was 

 carefully performed and the precise results noted ; and because the evil effects of using virus from an animal 

 in a too advanced stage of the disease Ls clearly shown by the effects of the inoculation on the portion of the 

 herd first operated upon. 



