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Dr. E. A. Schumann has been studying our records 
of dystocia and the pelves obtained from the fatal cases. 
From this material, some fetuses, female genitalia and 
pelves obtained at this laboratory he prepared a paper 
upon labor from a comparative standpoint and read it 
at the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society. Material has 
also been supplied by the laboratory to the following 
gentlemen: Dr. McClung, Dr. S. G. Dixon, Dr. E. C. 
Kirk and Dr. A. J. Smith. 
In preparing this report I have departed from the 
method of former years of listing individual diagnoses 
and have substituted lists of diagnoses and animal 
orders. Experience, scientific books and journals have 
taught us what diagnoses to expect. It seems advisable 
now to group our data under animal and pathological 
headings that strictly comparable conditions may be 
studied. I may, at a later date, divide these statistics 
according to food, length of stay in the garden, seasonal- 
distribution and possibly as to age and sex. The diag- 
noses in the tables are those of direct or collateral im- 
portance in the death of the animals. The incidental 
and unimportant diagnoses are omitted. In the second 
part of this report there will be discussed, as heretofore, 
the tuberculin test and important or interesting groups 
of cases. 
The following is a list of animals dying during the 
foregoing year. The totals will be found not to tally 
with the records upon the table, as some specimens have 
died from injury, and some were decomposed. More- 
over, in many instances animals are included in the 
figures of more than one heading, for lesions of import- 
ance may have been found in more than one of the 
anatomical systems. It is seldom the case that only 
one of the systems is affected sufficiently to be the only 
cause of death. 
