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W. HERBERT LOWE. 
Health, and it is hardly necessary for me to allude to the effec¬ 
tiveness of the untiring efforts of our deceased fellow-laborer, 
the lamented Dr. Ezra M. Hunt. The good work inaugurated 
by Dr. Hunt is still being carried on and extended in many 
ways by the present able Secretary of the State Board of Health 
and his co-laborers. This board was successful last year in sup¬ 
pressing anthrax in Cumberland County and elsewhere in this 
State, and I am pleased to say that there has been no return of 
the disease during the present year. Forty-five cases of glanders 
were reported, of which number five cases upon examination 
showed no evidences of the disease. All the other cases were de¬ 
stroyed and action taken to prevent extension of the disease. 
The mallein test has been employed as a diagnostic agent in 
suspicious cases with satisfactory results. In speaking of 
glanders I am reminded of a farcy case presenting some danger¬ 
ous and alarming features that came under my observation some 
two or three months ago. A poor man bought a horse with 
sores on its legs, being told by the seller that the sores were only 
fly-bites. His twelve-year-old daughter bathed the sores for a 
week or more, when I was called. I explained to the parents 
the nature of the disease in the horse and the danger of in¬ 
oculation to the girl and advised treatment. Fortunately the 
girl has shown no symptoms of the disease, and as two or three 
months have elapsed it is probable that she was not inoculated 
with the virus. 
The limits of my paper are such that I must pass on rapidly. 
But before doing so let me state that the investigation and con¬ 
trol of one single infectious disease has assumed such impor¬ 
tance in our State from both a sanitary and from a financial 
standpoint that the legislature two years ago, if I remember 
rightly, took the control of it out of the hands of the State 
Board of Health and passed a law creating a special commission 
on tuberculosis in animals. This commission unfortunately is 
limited in power and in funds. But nothing has prevented 
them from prosecuting the duties imposed upon them to the full 
extent of the means at their command. Under the statute they 
