DEATH OF A BOY FROM GLANDERS. 
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did not inform me whose horses they were. The boy died 
on Wednesday morning, at five minutes to one. The dis¬ 
ease increased up to the time of his death, and extended to 
his arms and legs, and no remedies I could use seemed to 
arrest it. Glanders has always been a fatal disease. There 
is no instance on record of a person affected with it recover¬ 
ing. The disease is communicated by infection or contagion 
from the diseased horses. The snort of a horse had been 
known to produce it. It may be taken by any absorbent 
membrane, such as of the eyes and nose. Mr. Barter is 
sure to have taken a statement from deceased as to his occu¬ 
pation, &c. 
The inquiry was then adjourned till Tuesday the 30th. 
The inquest in this case w r as resumed last evening at the 
Guildhall. 
Maria JFest, the mother of deceased, deposed that w T hen 
taken to the hospital her son had then been ill for a week or 
eight days, and was not able to go to work ; he w r as seen by 
Mr. Crang, of Timsbury. 1 here was no eruption on him 
when brought into the hospital. I came to see him on 
Monday week, and remained with him till he died on the 
following morning. 1 did not know till after his death that 
it was supposed he died of glanders. 
Joseph Crew , foreman of the smiths’ works at Camerton 
Coal Works, said—I usually attend to the horses at the coal 
pit when they are sick, except in any serious case, wdien a 
veterinary surgeon is employed. I have been at the works 
twenty-two years. I know the glanders. We had a horse 
so infected about seven years ago; by my advice it was 
brought up from underground, and attended by Mr. Bazeley, 
veterinary surgeon, of Falkland. The animal was subse¬ 
quently shot. That is the only case of glanders I have ever 
seen. The horse had a thick, continual, mucous discharge 
from the nose. I examined all the horses underground, nine 
in number, yesterday, and found them in a healthy state; 
the horses above ground are all healthy. There is no appear¬ 
ance of eruption on the horses. I have not heard of any 
diseased horses in the neighbourhood. A great many horses 
and donkeys come daily to the pit. 
Richard Mullins , shoeing-smith at the new 7 pit, Camerton, 
said—1 see the horses under and above ground every week; 
and, as far as I know, all of them are healthy. I never saw’ 
a horse at Camerton with glanders, and I have been at work 
there ten years. 
Mr. G. Feare , mining engineer, and agent to Mr. Jarrett, 
of the Camerton Coal Works, said—I have heard the evi- 
