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infection, and it is no uncommon thing for a servant in charge of 

 one of these animals to give his master's nose-bag and its contents 

 to a friend and proprietor of a glandered horse, for a " drink " 

 or its equivalent in money. Owners in question should not buy 

 foreign horses or those coming from such infected centres as 

 London and Glasgow, without having the suspicion of glanders 

 removed from them, by having them tested with mallein. 



When taking a horse by train, it is advisable to keep a muzzle 

 or nose-bag on him, because it is probable that glanders has not 

 infrequently been communicated by the mangers of railway boxes 

 which liad previously carried a glandered animal. 



Respecting the spread of glanders by public water troughs, " it is 

 quite possible that some cases of glanders have arisen as the 

 direct effect of drinking at a public trough, but they are very few 

 and far between. Three contractors have had, during the last 

 twenty years, four outbreaks of glanders in their studs. Eacli out- 

 break was clearly and directly traceable to the purchase of a 

 liorse from an infected stud, and was stamped out at once without 

 spreading. Save th^se outbreaks, no glanders has troubled them, 

 and yet their horses travel all over London, and drink at any 

 water trough they can reach. Infection from water troughs is 

 very rare, because in 90 per cent, of all personally investigated 

 outbreaks, other methods of infection were traceable. Even if 5 

 per cent, of all outbreaks in London were traceable to the water 

 troughs, the gravity of the harm would be no argument in favour 

 of closing the troughs, especially in summer. The harm resulting 

 to horses from being denied water all day would cause a mortality 

 greater than is caused by all the glanders in the metropolis." 

 (Hunting). 



When engaging new premises, especially in large cities, it is 

 advisable to be sure that they are free from the contagion of this 

 disease. 



ERADICATION OF GLANDERS.— The teaching of McFadyean, 

 Hunting, and other veterinary authorities shows that Government 

 sljould adopt the following rules, the first of which is the only one 

 in force : — 



1. To slaughter all horses which have outward syiivptoins of 

 glanders (p. 487), and to thoroughly disinfect the stable or en- 

 closure occupied by such animal or animals. 



2. To test with mallein all in-contact horses, namely, those which 

 are in the same stable, field or other plao© as a glandered horse. 



3. To quarantine all reacting horses, and to submit them to 

 further mallein tests, with intervals of time which should not be 



