SIXTH INTERNATIONAL YETERINARY CONGRESS. 
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IV. Vaccination against Black Quarter. 
The Veterinary Congress regards the preventive inocu- 
ation against black quarter discovered by MM. Arloing, 
Cornevin and Thomas, as a valuable method of combating 
:he disease, and one which is practicable in countries where 
:ompensation is provided for losses sustained through the 
vaccination. 
V. Pnenm. Enteritis of the Pig. 
1. —Swine fever and swine plague, on account of practical 
considerations, ought to be inscribed under a common name 
among the contagious diseases to be combatted by public 
measures, subject to obligatory declaration and inserted in 
the bulletin of epizootics separate from swine erysipelas. 
Adopted by 89 votes against 3. 
2. —The struggle against these two contagious diseases 
ought in each State to be regulated according to the legislation 
and the local situation.—Adopted by 99 votes against 2. 
VI .—Swine Erysipelas. 
1. —The Congress, recognizing the value of preventive 
inoculation in the struggle against swine erysipelas, passes 
to the order of the day. Negatived by 62 against 45 votes. 
2. —Preventive inoculation is an indispensable means in 
the struggle against swine erysipelas. Adopted by a large 
majority against 6 votes. 
3. —The Congress directs the attention of the various 
governments to the fact, calls upon them to support inocu¬ 
lation, pecuniarily, to supervise its effects and to settle by 
means of statistics the value of the various methods. 
Adopted by 51 votes against 31. 
VII.— Immunizing or curative inoculation against rabies. 
1 .—It is desirable that all those who are occupied with 
the experimental sciences should interest themselves in the 
verification of the facts upon which the author bases his im¬ 
portant conclusions, and thus assist in bringing pieventive 
inoculation against rabies into practice in the various Europ¬ 
ean States. Adopted by 31 votes against 26. 
