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farm. In the county of Aberdeen alone there were 224 
outbreaks in these two years, but only on six farms did more 
than one outbreak occur in twelve months. Experience is 
therefore accumulating to show (1) that when an animal dies 
from anthrax and its carcass is promptly disposed of in accor- 
dance with the law, there is little likelihood that there will be 
any further trouble traceable to this outbreak ; and (2) that 
many of the outbreaks in this country are of the nature of 
independent fresh infections from foreign food materials 
containing anthrax germs. This latter danger must be recog- 
nised, but at the present time it does not appear to be possible 
to deal with it by legislation. There is some reason to think 
that feeding cake from one particular country is specially 
dangerous in this connection, but anthrax is very prevalent in 
nearly all the countries from Avhich linseed or cotton-seed and 
the cakes manufactured from them are imported, and it is 
easy to understand how feeding stuffs from any of them may 
be infected. 
Glanders. 
The following Table shows the number of cases of this 
disease for each of the past six years : — 
Year 
No. of cases 
Year 
No. of cases 
1902 
2,040 
1905 
2,068 
1903 
2,499 
1906 
2,012 
1904 
2,628 
1907 
1,934 
In former Reports it has frequently been pointed out that 
the Order under which glanders has been dealt with since 
1894 could never be expected to stamp out the disease, 
because it ignored the fact (1) that glanders is spread 
and perpetuated by “ in-contact ” horses which are infected 
although presenting no outward or clinical symptoms, and 
(2) that the discovery of mallein had placed in the hands 
of local authorities an easy method of detecting such latent 
cases of disease. It is matter for congratulation that a new 
Order remedying these defects is to come into force on the 
1st January, 1908. This Order will greatly strengthen the 
hands of local authorities, inasmuch as it gives power to 
place restrictions on the movement of horses known to have 
been exposed to contagion, and ordains the slaughter of horses 
which have reacted to mallein, the owner to receive half 
value in compensation when the diagnosis is confirmed by 
post-mortem examination, and full value when it is not 
confirmed. It can scarcely be doubted that if full advantage is 
taken of these new powers a marked impression will within 
