REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE. 
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about $20 per head. Outside the city of Chicago I think the 
disease is on the decrease from year to year. We believe 
that in allowing the owner some compensation for diseased 
animals that it aids us very much in obtaining reports of sus¬ 
pected cases, and incidentally in discovering exposed animals 
which we are thus enabled to quarantine, and prevent any 
further spread of the disease in that locality. In the large 
cities it is often very difficult to obtain any history concern¬ 
ing the diseased animals, or direct exposures to them, while 
in the country districts we seldom meet any difficulty in ob¬ 
taining all the information that is necessary for the proper 
protection of the community. 
Cerebro-Spmal Meningitis .—In the past year I have found 
this disease existing in two different stables. In one of these 
six out of seven died, and in the other four, all the horses 
the owner possessed. The stable was in bad condition for 
disinfection, so I destroyed the two horses that were still 
living in the barn, set fire to it and burnt the horses with the 
barn. 
Spasms of the Larynx .—This occurred on one farm last 
year, the owner losing five horses in about six hours. The 
cause was entirely obscure. All the surroundings appeared 
in an excellent hygienic condition. 
Texas Fever .—Four cattle died last fall with Texas fever 
that were infected by some Southern cattle that broke out of 
a car on the railroad track. The car had caught fire, and 
one carload of cattle escaped, roaming over pastures and 
cornfields. The neighbors got after them immediately and 
drove them into a man’s yard where they were held over 
night. On the following day they were again loaded and 
shipped to market. About three weeks later the owner of the 
farm on whose place the cattle were held over night, lost two 
of his cows within forty-eight hours after the first evidence 
of sickness. Subsequently, two more died. Last month an 
outbreak occurred in Brown County, among cattle that were 
shipped by boat from East St. Louis and unloaded in Brown 
County and distributed on three different farms; sixteen of 
this number died. Four native cows that had crossed the 
