THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. IX, No. 106.] OCTOBER 1836. [New Scries, No. 46. 
REPORTS ON THE EPIDEMIC CATARRH, OR 
INFLUENZA, 
PREVAILING AMONG THE SHEEP IN THE COLONY OF NEW 
SOUTH WALES, IN THE YEAR 1835. 
By Messrs . Bennett, Gibson, and Sherwin. 
[We make no apology for the length to which these Reports 
extend, nor for substituting them for a Lecture in the present 
Number, for they have reference to a subject interesting to the 
British as well as the Colonial Agriculturist, and especially so to 
the veterinary practitioner. We are indebted to the kindness 
of Mr. Owen, the truly scientific curator of the Museum at the 
College of Surgeons, for the power of inserting these valuable 
documents. — Y.] 
REPORT. 
By George Bennett, Esq. M.R.C.S . , F.L.S., fyc. Sidney. 
THE first account I received of the appearance of the present 
epidemic in the colony was among the flocks of Robert Campbell, 
Esq., at Burrowa, about the middle of June 1834. The winter 
months previously had been very dry, with severe frosts ; and, 
rain setting in, the sheep were attacked with the present epi- 
demic. The deaths were numerous until about the middle of 
August, when they gradually diminished, fine mild weather setting 
in about this time. The mortality in Mr. Campbell’s flock was as 
follows 
Out of 700 wethers 400 died 
— 2,600 breeding ewes .... 1,600 — 
— 900 weaned lambs 500 — 
No. of sheep 
VOL. IX. 
4,200 Total loss . . . .2,500 
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