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INFLUENZA AMONG HORSES IN NEW YORK. 
We learn that the outbreak of disease among the horses 
in New York and Brooklyn, to which we drew attention last 
month, has begun to decline, both in severity and in the 
number of animals attacked. The malady appears to be 
identical with the one which recently prevailed in the Metro- 
polis, and to be chiefly confined to the horses of the railway 
and omnibus companies. 
Unwholesome food and badly-ventilated stables are believed 
to have led to the spread of the disease to a very great extent, 
as in numerous large establishments, where these causes 
were not in existence, the animals remained unaffected. The 
deaths have been numerous, particularly in those cases in 
which depletives were too freely used, or where the treatment 
was confided to the care of uneducated practitioners. Where 
the opposites existed, the recoveries have been far more 
rapid, as well as numerous, than the severity of the attack 
would have led the owners of the animals to suppose. 
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 
1869. 
“ Return of the Number of Foreign Animals brought 
by Sea to Ports in Great Britain, which on inspection on 
landing, within the Month of July, 1871, have been 
found to be affected with any Contagious or Infectious 
Disease, specifying the Disease, and the Ports from which, 
and to which, such Animals were brought, and the mode in 
which such Animals have been disposed of. 
Foreign 
ports from 
which 
brought. 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
to which 
brought. 
Disease. 
Number of Animals afeected. 
Disposal. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
Total. 
Slaughtered at 
place of landing. 
Coruna . 
Plymouth . 
Foot-and- 
mouth 
195 
195 
195 
Lisbon . 
London . 
42 
• • • 
42 
42 
Oporto . 
Southamp- 
3 
... 
3 
3 
ton 
Vigo 
London . 
>9 
15 
... 
... 
15 
15 
Total . 
255 
... 
255 
255 
“ ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Privy Council Office, Secretary. 
“ Veterinary Department, 14th August, 1871.” 
