No. 4.] REPORT OF CATPLK BURKAU. 



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Five horses in Newton which have reacted to mallein 

 remain to be retested, making 1,1()0 horses in all. 



It is only fair to state, in connection with the above table, 

 that the veterinarian of the Boston board of health reports 

 but 206 authentic cases of glanders or farcy for the year 

 1903 ; the renderers report 195. There are names on their 

 reports, however, which are not given by the agent of the 

 Boston board of health; and, on the other hand, his report 

 gives names that are not on. the renderers' returns. Cases 

 investigated outside of Boston, given on the renderers' re- 

 turns, have in nearly every instance l^een found to be cases 

 of glanders or farcy. These returns having proven sore- 

 liable in such instances, it is taken for granted that they are 

 equally reliable in every instance. This being the fact, the 

 cases reported by the veterinarian of the Boston board of 

 health and the renderers have both been entered on the 

 books, making the total number of horses killed as in- 

 fected 250. 



In doubtful cases the guinea pig test has been resorted to 

 as a means of diagnosis, as extensively as in the past few 

 years. This work has been done by Dr. Langdon Frothing- 

 ham, at the Harvard Medical School, and in this way many 

 uncertain cases have been decided. 



Mallein has also been used quite extensively, occasionally 

 as a method of diagnosing suspected cases, but more fre- 



