Report of Veterinary Committee. 
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recommended that for the ensuing 
year they be constituted as before, 
the name of Mr. Wheeler being added 
to fill a vacancy. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thoeold (Chairman) 
stated that Professor Brown had pre- 
sented the following report : — 
Pleueo - Pneumonia. — In the 
four weeks ended November 29th, 
twenty-seven fresh outbreaks of 
this disease occurred in Great 
Britain, in the counties of Aberdeen, 
Edinburgh, Essex, Lanark, Lan- 
caster, London, Middlesex, Renfrew, 
and York (N.R.). During this 
period about 1,755 cattle were 
slaughtered by order of the Board 
of Agriculture ; this includes the 
actually diseased animals, and also 
those which had been in contact 
with them, or otherwise exposed to 
the risk of infection. 
Anthrax. — During the month of 
November sixteen fresh outbreaks 
of anthrax were reported in Great 
Britain, fifteen of them in England, 
in the counties of Cornwall, Hants, 
Lancaster, Lincoln (Holland), Nor- 
folk, Northampton, Nottingham, 
Sussex (East), Wilts, and York 
(W.R.). The outbreak in Scotland 
took place in Wigtownshire. The 
total number of animals attacked 
was fifty-five — viz. fifty-one in 
England and four in Scotland. One 
diseased animal was killed, fifty- 
four died, and one recovered. 
Swine Fever. — The total num- 
ber of outbreaks of this disease 
reported in Great Britain during 
November was 401, or an average 
of 100 per week. This is a consi- 
derable decrease as compared with 
the weekly returns for the third 
quarter of the year, in which the 
average was over 130 per week. 
The number of pigs attacked in the 
four weeks was 3,255 ; the number 
of diseased pigs killed was 1,413, 
while 1,384 diseased swine died, 
227 recovered, and 761 remained 
alive when the last published return 
was made up. 
Experiments are now being car- 
ried on at the Royal Veterinary 
College to test the alleged conta- 
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gious nature of Foot-rot ; and a 
flock of sheep, among which the 
disease exists, is under observation. 
Investigations into the life history 
of the lung-worm in lambs and 
calves are not yet completed, but a 
report on the results of the inquiry 
up to the present time will be in- 
cluded in the Annual Report of the 
College for the year 1890. 
In reference to the treatment of 
the lung-worm disease, it may be 
remarked that the well-known 
remedies, oil of turpentine, carbolic 
acid, sulphuric ether.and chloroform 
have been used for some 3 r ears with 
a fair degree of success, provided 
that the medical treatment has in 
all cases been supplemented by 
good management, liberal rations, 
and shelter from cold and wet. A 
mixture containing ten to fifteen 
drops of carbolic acid, chloroform 
fifteen to twenty drops, turpentine 
twenty to thirty drops, with one to 
two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, may 
be given — the smaller doses to a 
lamb, and the larger to a calf — 
every day for three or four days in 
succession w r ith advantage. 
An application has been made 
for a sufficient quantity of Dr. 
Koch's lymph to test its action on 
tuberculous cattle, chiefly with a 
view to the diagnosis of the 
dijtase, in which, judging from 
experiment on small animals and 
in the human subject, it promises 
to afford very valuable aid. 
The Committee had further con- 
sidered the question of Foot-rot in 
sheep, and the experiments which 
had been carried out at the Royal 
Veterinary College as to its con- 
tagious or non-contagious character. 
A discussion had arisen upon Dr. 
Koch's recent discoveries in their re- 
lation to tuberculosis in the lower 
animals, and it had been agreed to 
represent to the Journal Committee 
the desirableness of an article or 
articles in the Journal, detailing the 
experiments which had already been 
carried out in this country, and giv- 
ing the results of any experiments 
that might in future be made with 
Dr. Koch's lymph, when a supply 
should have been procured. Pro- 
fessor Crookshank undertook to pre- 
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