420 
EDITORIAL. 
The removal of the aforesaid quarantines completes the dissolving of a 
quarantines established by this department in the several sections of the Unite 
States for the suppression of the above-named disease. 
No case of this disease has occurred in the State of Illinois since Dec. 2’ 
1887, a period of more than four years and eight months. 
No case has occurred in the State of Pennsylvania since September 29,188< 
a period of four years within a few days. 
No case has occurred in the State of Maryland since Sept. 18, 1889, 
period of three years. 
No case has occurred in the State of New York since March 25, 1892, a p 
riod of more than one year and four months. 
No case has occurred in the State of New Jersey since April 30, 1891, a p 
riod of six months, and no case has occurred in any other portion of the Unite 
States within the past five years. 
I do therefore hereby officially declare that the United States is free froi 
the disease known as contagious pleura-pneumonia. 
Done at the city of Washington, D. C., this 26th day of September, A. I 
1892. J. M. Busk, Sec'y. 
All Americans, and doubtless also all veterinarians, mus 
feel gratified by hearing of such a result, notwithstanding th 
recent item copied in some of our daily papers from the S 
James Gazette , containing the statement that an America 
bullock, slaughtered at Deptford, had been found to hav 
suffered with pleuro-pneumonia in an aggravated form. A 
this same bullock had come from the western part of th 
country, it would seem that, should the report be true, th 
extensive sanitary measures which had been practiced in the] 
region, must have been imperfect, and the watch set for th 
insidious progress of that disease had been too confident! 
overlooked after the stamping work of four years ago. L( 
us hope that this report from England is untrue, and that tb 
proclamation of Secretary Rusk is accurate in its facts as t 
hte condition of our neat cattle. 
Another Veterinary College.— While in Boston a 
tending the last meeting of the United States Veterinar 
Medical Association, we heard some vague reports relatin 
to the establishment of a new veterinary college in Washing 
ton City, D.C. These reports have been confirmed, and w 
have since received the announcement of the National Veter 
nary College , as it is entitled, and which counts in its facult 
a large number of members of the Bureau of Animal Industr 
