No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 305 



Total number of cattle quarantined or reported for examina- 

 tion during the year, 2,595 



Massachusetts Cattle. 



Number released, 508 



Number condemned, killed and paid for, 1,119 



Number permit to kill, paid for, . . 115 



Number permit to kill, no award, . . 151 



Number died in quarantine, no award, . 57 

 Number condemned and killed, in process 



of settlement, 300 



Number in quarantine, unsettled, . . 5 



2,255 



Cattle from without the State. 

 Number released, ..... 8 



Number condemned and killed, no award, 314 



Number condemned, killed, no lesions 



found, paid for, ..... IG 



Number condemned, killed, no lesions 



found, to be jjaid for, .... 2 



340 



Total, 2,595 



Of the above 340 interstate cattle, 233 were tested and 

 retested at Brighton, G of which were released for slaughter 

 and 227 condemned ; no lesions were found in 10, for 8 of 

 which the State has reimbursed the owners, and payment 

 will be made for the remaining 2 upon presentation of claims 

 by owners. Of the remaining 107 cattle (which were tested 

 at other points than Brighton), 8 were found to show no 

 lesions, for which the State has reimbursed the owners, and 

 2 were released on a third test. 



In addition to the 2,595 head of cattle disposed of as 

 above, 644 cattle and 267 swine have been reported by 

 butchers, renderers and boards of health as having been found 

 tuberculous at time of slaughter, all of which were ren- 

 dered. Of this number, 431 cattle and 170 swine were 

 slaughtered and condemned at the Brighton Abattoir, 



Under the second group, the maintenance of a quarantine 

 against other States to prevent the introduction of tubercu- 

 lous cattle from outside sources into Massachusetts, the fol- 



