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ALARMING MORTALITY FROM GLANDERS. 
Remarks on the 'present Prevalence and Danger of the above 
dreadful Malady. — Having given the above melancholy cases, 
which have taken place recently within our own immediate locality 
and sphere of observation, we must add, injustice to the public, 
that we fear the malady is more extensive and fatal in its conse- 
quences than may be generally supposed. And we have reason 
to believe that a great sacrifice of human life takes place annually 
from infection caught by contact with glandered horses, the symp- 
toms of which, in their incipient state, are not unfrequently mis- 
taken by human physicians, who may not expect or inquire after 
the primary causes which led to the affliction of their patients, and 
treat them as poor Wallace did, in case No. 1, for “ a common cold 
or influenza.” There should be an express Act of Parliament to 
prevent glandered horses being tolerated as property, which the 
law now sanctions, and which act should compel the immediate 
destruction of all animals so affected ; and after being examined 
and condemned by a committee of veterinary surgeons, or one or 
more of such, properly qualified and paid by Government for their 
services, when professionally called upon by Boards of Health or 
other public bodies. 
This now dangerous and alarmingly spreading disease, in this 
country, should no more be countenanced or tolerated than rabies 
canina in the dog; and it should be well understood at the present 
time, when the keep of the horses of poor farmers is so dear, and 
must be so meagre, that poverty in the quantity and quality of the 
food of these animals are great inducements to glanders ; and de- 
bility and oppression, arising therefrom, are amongst the principal 
exciting causes of this dreadful and incurable disease, with which 
horses are long known to be afflicted in seasons of scarcity of food, 
when they are curtailed of their usual quantum of nutriment, but 
expected to perform the same amount of labour and service to their 
owners. 
In fine, horses are, this season, dying in great numbers through 
the country of glanders. In Aughnacloy market, last week, the 
hides of forty horses, at least, were for sale ; when the average 
used formerly to be about five or six. Our agricultural friends, 
and other holders of this valuable stock, should weigh well the 
importance of the facts we have here stated, and of our remarks 
thereon, as it is not only the loss of property but the sacrifice of 
human life that is to be dreaded. 
*** We thank Mr. Dycer for his attention. 
