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ANIMAL VACCINATION. 
standing in mud and wet aggravates the disease, but in suit- 
able weather they are best left out of doors. 
“ Whoever discovers the existence of the disease upon his 
farm or in his neighbourhood should immediately give notice 
to the State Cattle Commissioner nearest home. The Cattle 
Commissioners are Lewis F. Allen, P. O. address Buffalo; 
M. R. Patrick, Manlius, Onondaga Co. ; and Dr. Moreau 
Morris, 301, Mott Street, New York. 
“T. L. Harison, Secretary” 
ANIMAL VACCINATION. 
It is pretty conclusively shown by Mr. Simon, in one of 
his recently issued reports, that it is neither desirable nor 
necessary to introduce animal vaccination into this country, 
for the purpose of maintaining intact, or still further im- 
proving, our national vaccination. Mr. Simon relies mainly 
upon the facts obtained by Dr. Seaton in a special inquiry 
which he was desired to make in France, Belgium, and Holland 
during the autumn of 1869, and the results of which are 
printed in the appendix to Mr. Simon's report. Referring 
our readers for details to Dr. Seaton's report itself, we may 
here state the general conclusions to which they point. 
Mr. Simon affirms that the system of animal vaccination 
has certain “ great disadvantages," and these are its various 
peculiar liabilities to failure : 
First, that apparently even able and painstaking operators 
may find it impossible to transmit successive vaccination from 
calf to calf without very frequent recurrence of failures and 
interruptions. 
Secondly, it is found that, in the transference of infection 
from the calf to the human subject, even under the most 
favorable circumstances — i. e., by experienced operators, and 
with lymph direct from calf to arm — as, for instance, at 
Rotterdam, the proportion of non-success was nearly twenty 
times as great as in the ordinary arm-to-arm vaccination ; a 
matter, as Dr, Seaton observes, of special importance in refer- 
ence to outbreaks of smallpox, where, for the prevention of 
the spread of the disease, it is of all things necessary that 
the lymph used should be such as to ensure immediate 
success. 
Thirdly, that the calf-lymph, as compared with ordinary 
lymph, is peculiarly apt to spoil with keeping, and, in the form 
of tube-preserved lymph, can so little be relied on, that the 
