222 Horses on Board Ship. 



attention are glanders, influenza (pink-eye), 



strangles, and pneumonia. 



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GLANDERS. 



The attention necessary to be paid to the 

 investigation of glanders varies greatly accord- 

 ing to the country of export. Thus, although 

 the consideration of this terrible disease may 

 be ignored with regard to Australian horses, 

 we should diligently search for it among 

 horses about to be exported from the United 

 States (especially the Southern States), Canada, 

 and even from England, where its preven- 

 tion is deplorably neglected by our legisla- 

 tive authorities. It was particularly rife in 

 Cuba, whence many infected animals were 

 brought to the Southern States, after the 

 Spanish American war. I need not touch 



