No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 411 



Glanders. 



While the main work of the commission has been devoted to 

 tuberculosis, considerable work has also been done on the mat- 

 ter of glanders and farcy. Almost the entire time of Commis- 

 sioner O'Connell has been consumed in going over the State in 

 response to the numerous calls of the local inspectors and others 

 to examine reported cases of glanders and farcy. The method 

 pursued in the case of this disease is the same as heretofore. 

 During the past year the office has received reports of two 

 hundred and thirty animals suspected of being affected with 

 glanders or farcy. All of these have been attended to, and as 

 a result one hundred and sixty animals have been condemned 

 and destroyed. This disease has been found in the past year in 

 the folio wi no- cities and towns : — 



Amesbuiy, 



Arlington, 



Ashland, 



Bedford, 



Belmont, 



Boston, 



Brookline, 



Brockton, 



Cambridge, 



Canton, 



Chelmslbrd, 



Chelsea, 



Chicopee, 



Concord, 



Dudley, 



East I^ridgewater, 



Evei'ett, 



Enfield, 



Foxborough, 



Franklin, 



Gardner, 



Grafton, 



Greenfield, 



Harvard, 



Haverhill, 



Holyoke, 



Hopkinton, 



Huntington, 



Lawrence, 



Leominster, 



Lexington, 



Ludlow, 



Lynn, 



Maiden, 



Marlborough, 



Melrose, 



Methuen, 



Mill bury, 



Needham, 



Newton, 



Northampton, 



Northborough, 



North Westport, 



Norwood, 



Peabody, 



Rock Bottom, 



Salem, S 



Somerset, 



Somerville, 



Stoneham, 



Stoughton, 



Southbridge, 



Springfield, 



Stow, 



Swampscott, 



Taunton, 



Tewksbury, 



Westborough, 



AVest Boylston, 



West Bridgewater, 



Westport, 



Whitman, 



Worcester. 



In the report of the commission of last jear the attention of 

 the Legislature was called to the fact that there was no adequate 

 provision for inspecting animals suspected of being affected with 

 glanders or farcy, the law of that time as to the inspection of 

 animals applying only to tuberculous cattle ; and they recom- 

 mended that the law be changed so as to direct that the local 



