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of fat cows and steers examined by him, 12 were affected with generalized tuberculosis, 
in advanced stages and a very much larger number with localized tubercular lesions. He 
concludes that fully one per cent, of all the cattle killed in these abattoirs since December 
1st, 1895, were tuberculous. He found this disease mostly in fattened cows from local 
dairies ; while actinomycosis was frequently met with in western steers. 
I am pleased to be able to state that the veterinary profession in Kings County is 
rapidly gaining recognition, confidence and support from owners of live stock, the public 
at large and our city government. 
Seventeen years ago, when there were a very much larger number of dairy cattle in 
the county and perhaps fully as many horses as there are now (owing to the introduction 
of the trolley system), not more than four or five regular graduated veterinarians, a few 
self-educated practitioners, and a dozen or two of ignorant, loud-mouthed empirics found 
employment in our county, where to-day there are 81 regular graduates in veterinary medi¬ 
cine registered in the county clerk’s office, and I believe I am safe in saying that at least 
95 per cent, are not only gaining a comfortable livelihood by their practice of the profes¬ 
sion, but are looked upon and treated by the community in which they move as scientific 
and skillful men and respected citizens. Of the 34 non-graduates who have registered by 
affidavit only a very small number are engaged in actual practice, some few of whom are 
elderly men who educated themselves when there were no veterinary colleges in this 
country, and by years of study and experience have gained sufficient knowledge and skill 
to become successful practitioners and control to this day a respectable clientage ; the rest 
are made up of overbearing stable foremen, conceited horseshoers, unscrupulous horse cap¬ 
pers, travelling so-called veterinary dentists and patent medicine vendors, etc., who took 
advantage of the laws of 1886, and registered upon their affidavits that they had practiced 
for three years ; but very few of this latter class remain in practice in Kings County. They 
were gradually forced from our ranks by a want of support, many have taken down their 
shingles and left for parts unknown, while others follow other occupations. 
The city government employs 6 veterinarians in professional and official capacities, 
four of whom are connected with the Department of Health as veterinary inspectors, one 
as veterinarian to the Police Department and one as veterinarian to the Fire Department. 
In conclusion, I cannot refrain from referring to the excellent work done by the A. S. 
for the P. of C. to A., in this city. It maintains a well-equipped office, consisting of an 
inspector, 4 patrolmen, one large ambulance for the removal of horses, and two small and 
exceedingly well appointed ambulances for the removal of homeless or to the owner ob¬ 
jectionable cats and dogs. 
A summary of the work in this city for 1895 shows : 
Cases prosecuted in the courts.. 95 2 
Disabled animals temporarily suspended from labor . 3,403 
Horses and mules disabled and past recovery humanely destroyed. 2*987 
Homeless or disabled small animals humanely destroyed. 46,898 
Disabled horses removed from streets to veterinary infirmaries or owners’ stables. 57^ 
Complaints received and investigated.. . .. 21,690 
These figures show that the officers have not been idle, and that a vast amount of suf¬ 
fering among animals has been prevented by them. Geo. H. Berns, 
Sect}', for Kings County. 
Professor Paw, of Cornell University, thinks slight cases of 
glanders are not only amenable to treatment, but curable, even 
in our latitude and atmosphere, and on the western plains at 
high altitudes altogether so. 
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Dr. W. U. Williams, of Cornell, spoke of the prevalence oi 
glanders in Russia and other parts of Europe, and finally of the 
disease on the ranges in Montana, where glanders exists to some 
extent, and is not only a curable disease, but that mallein treat¬ 
ment to a large degree produces such results, and that upon the 
