Live Stock. 



|.Jan. 1907. 



Prevention. — (I) Reduction of numbers of vagabond dogs. 



(2) Destruction of rabid dogs after careful observation. 



(3) Bitten animals should be put under observation and all destroyed if 

 the dog that inflicted the bite was found to be rabid. 



(4) All stray dogs should be seized, and if not claimed in three days 

 destroyed. Licensing and wearing of collars should be enforced. 



(5) At every Police Station in the Island a strong barred cage should be 

 provided for the purpose of confining and observing suspected dogs. 



Note I.— A piece of the brain cleanly removed from the region of the 

 ventricles about one ounce in weight may be sent in a wide mouthed bottle in 

 pure glycerine for bacteriological examination. 



Note II.— All persons bitten by a suspected rabid dog that has been destroyed 

 so that observation is impossible should consult their medical adviser, and on his 

 advice proceed to a Pasteur Institute for treatment at once. 



Poultry Notes. 



By G. W. Sturgess, Government Veterinary Surgeon. 



DISEASES OF POULTRY .-{Continued) 



Inflammation of the Bowels (Enteritis).— As a separate disease simple in- 

 flammation of the bowels is not common in poultry. It is commonly seen in connec- 

 tion with other diseases especially those of an infective nature. Aggravated or • 

 neglected cases of diarrhoea may run on to enteritis and death. Irritant poisons 

 also cause it. 



Contagious Inflammation of the Bowels (Contagious Enteritis).— This 

 disease is described by Klein as a separate disease from fowl cholera which it 

 closely resembles. It is due to a bacillus (B, gallinarum). The symptoms differenti- 

 ating it from cholera are that the bird is not so sleeply and the faeces are yellowish, 

 and not green or whitish as in cholera. The comb becomes livid and there is 

 great thirst and dullness. On post-mortem examination all the internal organs, 

 are inflamed and engorged especially the spleen and liver. There is also abundant 

 intestinal mucus which swarms with the bacilli. It is very fatal and treatment of 

 affected birds is almost useless. The period of incubation is 3 to 5 days and the 

 duration of the disease 24 tc 36 hours. It is principally spread by fouling of the 

 ground and food by the fasces of infected birds. As in cholera all efforts must be 

 directed to suppression. Such remedies as Sanitas, camphor, cinnamon oil, carbolic 

 acid, cyllin may be tried if desired in combination with brandy, linseed jelly, 

 arrowroot, or starch. 



Usually outbreaks occur in overcrowded runs— however an infected bird 

 may convey the disease to the best managed farm and cause great loss. The measures 

 for suppression are the same as for fowl cholera and infective diseases generally. 

 Affected birds must be isolated or destroyed and the body burned. Runs should be 

 dug up and treated with quicklime- Fowl houses limewashed with hot wash in which 

 some carbolic acid is mixed or tarred with hot gas tar. Utensils should be scalded 

 and cleaned out. Food and pure water must be given to unaffected birds from clean 

 vessels scalded after use each time. The best plan at the very start is to isolate all 

 birds— sound and diseased— separately in small boxes some few feet apart or in fine 

 weather the birds may be tethered by the leg to pegs a few feet apart. Any that die 

 can be removed and burned and the place disinfected, and other birds are not infected 

 by them. In this way in a few days the diseased birds can be picked out and the 

 disease pretty effectually checked. A fresh run should be provided after isolation. 



