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creased 17 percent. About two-thirds of the cases in Massa- 

 chusetts occur outside of Boston ; the otlier one-third occur 

 in the city. One-half of all the cases occurred in the cities 

 of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea and Everett. 

 Al)out 380 of the actual cases occurred within ten miles of 

 the State House. 



The two cities outside of the metropolitan district which 

 seem to be separate centres of importance are Worcester 

 and Fall River. It will be seen that the former shows a 

 decrease of 22 per cent and the latter of over 62 per cent. 

 The only good-sized city to show much of an increase is 

 New Bedford, and even there the number of cases did not 

 exceed those in Arlington, Brookline or Westwood. Law- 

 rence shows a falling off of 71 per cent, Lowell of GO per 

 cent, Cambridge of o() per cent and Somerville of 54 per 

 cent. The number of cases reported as positive in Boston 

 are those given by courtes}^ of the veterinarian of the Boston 

 board of health. Most of the negative ones were reported 

 by the renderers, which upon investigation the veterinarian 

 of the Boston board of health decided were not suffering 

 from o-landers. 



Cases of glanders or farcy occurred in 98 cities and towns 

 in 1905, as compared with 105 in 1904; it occurred l)oth 

 years in 64 cities and towns ; no cases occurred in 41 places 

 in 1905 where it was found in 1904, and it appeared in 34 

 towns where it did not occur in 1904 ; but in most instances 

 where the disease appears in a town one year and disappears 

 the following season the cases are isolated ones, the origin 

 of which, as a rule, can be traced to another localitj^ 



Less work has been done with mallein in making stal^le 

 tests in 1905 than in the preceding year, but where it has 

 been «ised the results seem to have been of assistance in 

 cleaning up centres of infection. 



The following table shows the amount of work done in 

 testino- horses in stables where slanders has occurred, and 

 the results : — 



