No. 4.] 



CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 



543 



Grand total 206 



Total for August, September and October, 93, or 45 per cent. 



It will be seen by the two tallies that during August, Sep- 

 tember and October, at Worcester, only twenty per cent, of 

 the cases of the year occurred ; while in Boston, Cambridge, 

 Somerville and Quincy, forty-five per cent, of the cases of 

 the year occurred during these months. 



If the increase in the amount of glanders be considered 

 from the localities where it exists, it will be found that it is 

 largely, in fact almost wholly, confined to twenty-eight cities 

 and towns, w^ith Boston as a centre, and the other towns cov- 

 ering a territory that is continuous between them and Boston ; 

 and that in many, if not all, there are express men, team- 

 sters and others whose teams pass almost daily to Boston 

 and return, and who water their horses at infected watering 

 troughs on the way, or infect the troughs with glandered 

 animals of their own. 



