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of some discharged military oxen. The 

 last death from Einderpe^t at Upper 

 Tugela (Sand Spruit) occurred on De- 

 cember 14th, 1*JU1. If this sort of thing 

 goes on 1 do not see any prospect of 

 checking the spread of the disease. 



ZULULAND.— D.V.S. PALGEAVE. 



Horsesichness. — Only five deaths from 

 horsesickness have been reported through- 

 out the Province since 7th January, 

 namely, one in Hlabisa district, one in 

 Melmoth district, and three in Eshowe 

 district; 



Rinderpest. — ISkandhla District. — The 

 disease in this district is still confined to 



--'file near neighbourhood of the original 

 outbreaks in the wards of Matshana and 

 Luzindela. The total number of deaths 

 since the disease first appeared in the 



,, district up to date is 54; of these, three 

 cattle, which had just recovered from 

 lungsickness, and were in poor condition, 

 died almost immediately after inocula- 

 tion. During January, 126 head of cat- 

 tle were inoculated. 



Transvaal.^ — The disease has appeared 

 at some native kraals in the Transvaal 

 at a short distance from the Nkandhla 

 border, and up to date eleven deaths have 

 been reported and 28 head of cattle re- 

 ported sick. Endeavours have been made 

 to have these cattle inoculated in order 

 to prevent the disease spreading along the 

 Nkandhla border, but the difficulties of 

 carrying out these inoculations is very 

 great, owing to the constant presence of 

 small parties of Boers. 



The order issued by the military au- 

 thorities, that all cattle are to be brought 

 inland from the border, is almost certain 

 to result in the spread of the disease. 



All the other districts of the Province 

 are still free from Einderpest. 



DUEB AN.— D.V.S. AMOS. 



The importations to Natal through this 

 ' month have been numerous, as the figures 

 below will show: — 



Horses, 9,813; mules, 2,021; sheep^ 

 1,550; oxen, 1,G45; dogs, 14; cows, ,3; 

 calves, 1. 



The horses are composed as follows: — 

 Australian, 3,976; American, 3,035; Eus- 

 sian, 2,246; English, 556. 



The mules all came from America; of 

 the oxen, 1,520 came from Madagascar 

 and 125 from Australia. 



The 1,550 sheep were all Australian, 

 as also were the three cows and one calf. 

 The three cows were tested here for 

 tuberculosis, and one, ex ^.S. "Argus," 

 reacted and was destroyed. I made a 

 post mortem examination, and well mark- 

 ed lesions were found and forwarded to 

 the Government Bacteriologist. 



Glanders. — One case was reported as 

 destroyed during the voyage of the S.S. 

 "Monteagle," from Fiume. The ship- 

 ment were inoculated on arrival without 

 any reactions occurring. All other ship- 

 ments arrived clear from this disease. No 

 cases have come to my notice in the town, 

 and the stable in. Union Street which 1 

 condemned is being rebuilt. 



Skin Diseases, chiefly mange and 

 ring-worm, were very bad on some of the 

 shipments arriving here. These cases 

 were most stringently isolated and treated 

 by the Veterinary Otijoers in charge of 

 Eemounts, Durban. 



Lungsickness has broken out amongst 

 the Government heifers in quarantine 

 here, and up to the present five deaths 

 have occurred (four being killed for 

 lungsickness and one for anaemia) for 

 which see special reports. At the pre- 

 sent moment all the heifers are improved 

 in condition, and none show any suspici- 

 ous symptoms of disease, with the excep- 

 tion of one which is coughing,- and has 

 been isolated for several days. , 



Alb the Government heifers have been 

 inoculated and drenched with lungsick- 

 ness virus. 



Scab. — I had to stop the landing of 

 50 sheep badly affected with this disease 

 from the S.S. "Milwaukee." All the oxen 

 arriving were landed for slaughter pur- 

 poses only, certificates for which have 

 been put up in this ofhce. 



A deposition has been made against 



for landing oxen without m| pie- 



vious examination. Luckily this was de- 

 tected at an early stage of off-loiiding, 

 and in consequence every animail was 

 carefully examined by me before they l&ft 

 the Point. Such practices as these, how- 



