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THE AOBI C ULTU RAL JOURNAL. 



eradicate the disease, and several owners 

 are now drenching their cattle in conse- 

 quence. Numbers of infected oxen still 

 continue to occupy the different lungsick 

 camps, and the discharging camp at 

 Matowan's Kop is very badly infected. 

 A large proportion of the animals affected 

 with the disease all over my District are 

 recovering, and will, I fear, be a great 

 source of trouble to the Colony in the 

 near future. In many instances owners 

 have lost heavily from the effects of 

 inoculation, no doubt due in a great 

 measure to carelessness in the selection of 

 virus, and aggravated by the excessive 

 heat experienced up-country during the 

 past few weeks. 



Scab.— With few exceptions most of 

 the private flocks in this district are now 

 in a cleanly condition. 



The large flocks being introduced into 

 the Colony by the Military are all affected 

 with the disease, but these, I am pleased 

 to say, are mostly dipped as they arrive, 

 and numbers have already undergone 

 tlieir second dipping. 



Redivater.—A good many cases of this 

 disease have occurred in cattle coming 

 from the Transvaal and Orange River 

 Colony. 



Hcrsesickness—Owlj a few isolated 

 cases have occurred up to the present 

 time. 



showed well marked cases of glanders. Mr. 

 Bunge possesses no other horses, so with 

 proper attention to stables and utensils, 

 I hope this will be the end of glanders 

 in this immediate vicinity. 



IXOPO— D.V.S. VERNEY. 



Lungsickncss.—l regret to say that the 

 cattle belonging to Mr. Johnson, Dronk 

 Vlei, have developed this disease just 

 as the six weeks was ending, bo he is 

 now under license for a further period. 

 I am sending you a separate report about 



tll6SG Cclttl6. 



Glanders — As requested, I visited Mr. 

 Bunge, Murchison, Port Shepstone, to 

 inspect his horses (iuarantined as sus- 

 picious of glanders. Mr. Bunge possessed 

 two horses (carriage), both showing 

 nasal discharge, enlarged submaxillary 

 lymphatic glands and ulcerated schnei- 

 derian memljranes. There was a history 

 of an attack of glanders occurring at a 

 Kafir kraal, two miles from Mr. Bunge's 

 house. D.V.B. Byrne treated this out- 

 break. Considoriug the circumstances, 

 I did not think it necessary to use 

 mallein, and destroyed the t ,vo horses 

 jn question. P(>st-morf''>n examination 



DURBAN— D.Y.S. AMOS 

 Glanders.— OwtBide Mr. Douglas' stable 



I have not had another case of glanders 



during the month. 



Tuhei-oulosis.— 'No cow has reacted to 



the test of tuberculin during the month, 



15 having been tested. 



Horsesickness.—'i^ one has come under 



my notice. 



LunQSickness.— One farm is still under 

 quarantine restriction. 



The importations have been a tair 

 average, as the numbers on attached report 

 will show. 



One case of Osteo-porosis came under 

 my notice. This is the second case in the 

 same stable, and Supt. Alexander gave 

 me to understand you personally saw the 

 first case. 



Four horses (two fatally) were recently 

 affected with apoplexy owing to the ex- 

 treme heat, and were the property of the 

 Durban Tram Co. 



HOWICK— D.V.S. BYRNE. 



Scab.— In Lion's River Division the 

 only case of scab at present existing, to 

 my" knowledge, is in a flock of 410 sheep, 

 the property of Mr. F. Curry, on the farm 

 Avondale. 



I am sorry to state that Mr. Clarke and 

 his natives' had to be placed under a 

 renewed license for Inngsickness, another 

 case having occurred. The cattle were 

 as?ain inoculated on the 25th. 



In Umgeni Division Money Mahray 

 (Indian), Lill=ef on tein, Thornville Junc- 

 tion, is still under license for lungsick- 



^^'^There was one case of glanders. A 

 horse, the property of Mr. E. Tooth, 

 Hilton Road, was taken to Pietermaritz- 

 burg to be sold by aaction on the Market 

 Square. D.V.S. Woollatt examined the 

 horse and found a cicatrix in the near 

 nostril, so had the horse sent back, and i 

 being away he lested him with mallem, 

 and the horse having reacted was con- 

 demned. I viiuted Mr. E. Tooth at 

 Hilton Road, on J-muary 17th, an- 1 saw 



