REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE. 
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complication is a form of iritis, which is easily distinguished 
from the ocular complications of influenza in that the con¬ 
junctiva does not become involved. Abscesses occasionally 
form in the sub-parotid and sub-maxillary glands. Pneu¬ 
monic complications simulate contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
Parties reporting the above did not state treatment adopted. 
• Disease occurred mostly in the early spring; tuberculosis is 
prevalent in most dairy herds in this State. Over fifty per 
cent, of one dairy herd, tested with tuberculin by the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, re-acted. The owners name is not 
divulged by the Bureau in its report. [The Bureau seems to 
have gone into the Secret Service.] , 
“ Texas cattle fever exists along the border line to a con¬ 
siderable extent each year. Glanders exists to a slight degree 
in Virginia. Anthrax among cattle is almost unknown. In 
connection with tuberculosis and the tuberculin test, I wish 
to call attention to the unreliability of the second test without 
the intervention of several months. On several animals that 
came under my observation, the reaction was very slight 
[one or two degrees] in the first test. On second test, just 
one month later, no reaction was obtained, yet a post mortem 
revealed tuberculosis. It seems to me that the first test is 
the one upon which we should make a diagnosis.” 
WASHINGTON. 
Dr. S. B. Nelson, of Spokane, sent the following: 
“ It may be of interest to you to know my observations in 
regard to certain diseases appearing in the Western country, 
having been in practice for five years in Spokane. The first 
two years I observed no anthrax, black-leg, or tuberculosis, 
but found an occasional case of glanders. In 1893 I observed 
glanders and three or four cases of tuberculosis, and one case 
of hog cholera in the immediate vicinity of Spokane. In 1894 
the number of cases of glanders and tuberculosis was doubled, 
and thus far in 1895 I have had the opportunity of condemn¬ 
ing inside the city limits seven cases of glanders which had 
been brought into the city from the surrounding country. I 
investigated an outbreak of anthrax in milch cows, in a small 
community in the lower end of the country, and from which 
