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two or three years amongst the horses of our 

 cavalry regiments. 



Ireland is no doubt the division of the United 

 Kingdom in which there are most cases of glan- 

 ders in man and horses. In the report of the 

 Census Commissioners for 1851, we find the fol 

 lowing remarks : " The number of deaths from 

 this cause afforded by the returns of 1841 was 

 but eleven; on the present occasion they amount to 

 one hundred and ninety-six, viz., one hundred 

 and sixty-eight males and twenty-eight females. 

 We think the magnitude in the returns for 1851 

 is owing, not merely to a greater knowledge, both 

 medical and popular, of the symptoms of the 

 disease, but to an increase of these affections, 

 and to a greater negligence on the part of per- 

 sons engaged in the care of horses. Instances 

 have been recorded of families becoming infected 

 with this frightful malady from residing in the 

 same apartments with diseased animals. In our 

 report upon the statistics of disease, we have 

 already called attention to the subject of the in- 

 crease of this affection, and pointed out the 

 necessity which exists for bringing infected ani- 

 mals under the surveillance of the police. The 

 seasons show the following great varieties: In 

 spring there died seventy-one persons from this 

 cause; in summer, fifty; in winter, forty-eight j 

 and in autumn, but twenty-nine.'' — Veterinary 

 Review^ 1863. 



I^aw respecting glandered horse.? in England, 

 reads thus : " Any person who shall sell, expose 



