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' Towns with negative cases only in liK)4 are not tabulated unless there were 

 positive or negative cases in them during 1905. 



The close of 1905 leaves all cases of glanders or farcy 

 reported during the year disposed of, — a niucli more satis- 

 factory condition than usual. 



In the sixth semiannual report of the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau, January, 1905, 10 suspected cases remained to be 

 decided later, in connection with unfinished stable tests ; of 

 these, 8 horses ceased to react and were released from quar- 

 antine, and 2 developed physical evidence of disease and 

 were killed, 1 in Cambridge and the other in Clinton, mak- 

 inof the actual number killed during the vear ()2() : but the 2 

 mentioned are tabulated among the undecided cases of 1904, 

 leaving 024 new cases which have been destroyed or died. 

 Only one error in diagnosis has been made among the horses 

 killed. This animal was found on autopsy to be free from 

 glanders, and the Commonwealth paid $125 for it. 



It will be seen by the above table that in Boston there 

 is a falling off of 44 cases from the previous year, as re- 

 l)orted by the veterinarian of the Boston board of health, 

 which has entire charge of glanders in the city of Boston, 

 and that outside of lioston the decrease is 142. That is, 

 outside of the limits of the city of Boston (here has been 

 a decrease of about 25 per cent, and in Boston it has dc- 



