EDITORIAL. 
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pages of our coming thirteenth volume, and we do not doubt that 
many of our brethren will be induced by a conspicuous reminder 
of the coming appointments, to add their presence to the meetings, 
who would otherwise suffer them to come and go in a listless and 
careless way, as they have too often done in the past. 
Sanitary Reports. —We have frequently called the attention 
of our readers to the necessity and the consequent benefit which 
must follow the publication of the reports which describe the 
presence and progress of the outbreaks of contagious diseases 
which at times prevail in various sections of the country, as they 
may be observed by our State Veterinarians, as well as by private 
practitioners. 
The advantage which would doubtless accrue from the publi¬ 
cation of a strictly American Sanitary Bulletin are too evident 
to require any enlargement upon the remarks in which we have 
already indulged when treating this subject on previous occasions. 
We do not consider that our appeals have been entirely ignored, 
and cannot but believe that the reports which through the kind¬ 
ness of many veterinarians through the country, occasionally 
come into our hands, are the fruit of these repeated appeals. 
We are thankful for the few which we receive, but we think there 
is no good reason why the number should not be materially in¬ 
creased. The intelligence which we publish to-day, under the 
title of “ Sanitary Extracts,” illustrates the importance of the 
subject, even if we consider but a single one of the diseases re¬ 
ferred to, glanders, for example. Evidently it is a more preva¬ 
lent disease than many of us are aware of, and we believe that 
this prevalence may be largely attributed, in the words of the 
Cattle Commissioners of Massachusetts, to the fact that “the law 
requiring persons who have knowledge of,\ or have reason to sus¬ 
pect, the existence of a contagious disease among any species of 
domestic animals , to make their information known to the proper 
authorities ,” is too often disregarded. 
This language does not refer exclusively to glanders, but covers 
the entire category of communicable and epidemic diseases. We 
have in a number of the States and some of our large cities, good 
laws and sufficient sanitary regulations, but not a single one of 
