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Glanders in Cuba. —This disease is reported prevailing ex¬ 
tensively in that Spanish island. The first case of contagion toman 
is reported in 1870, but since it is said 30 or 40 persons died yearly. 
A Commission for Investigating Tuberculosis among 
Cattle. —-A bill has been introduced into the New York Senate 
providing for a further inquiry into the existence of tuberculosis. 
The wide prevalence of consumption in cattle has been a ques¬ 
tion of much concern to the State Board of Health, and last 
year the board’s inspectors killed over twenty thousand head of 
cattle which were afflicted with the disease, and for which claims 
a gg re g at i n g thousands of dollars are being filed daily by the 
State Board of Claims. The new bill provides for a commission 
to consist of one member of the State Board of Health, to be 
designated by said board ; three breeders of thoroughbred 
cattle, each engaged in the breeding of a separate and distinct 
breed, to be selected by the directors of the New York State 
Dairymen s Association, and Prof. James Law, Professor of Vet¬ 
erinary Medicine in Cornell University. The commission is to 
have all the power now granted to the State Board of Health to 
examine the cattle of the state for the disease known as tuber¬ 
culosis, and to examine into that disease, its existence, and any 
other facts concerning it that may now or hereafter be brought 
forth, and report the same to the Senate by January 15, 1895, 
setting forth all work done and all experiments made, and 
such suggestions for the proper continuation of the work as 
will tend to remove the disease from the cattle of the state. 
Fifteen thousand dollars is appropriated for the expenses of the 
commission .—Medical Record. 
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UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
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Dr. A. Liautard:— 
My Dear Doctor :—In reply to your recent favor inquiring 
about the program of our meeting in September next at Phila¬ 
delphia, I would state that the subject of “Tuberculosis” will 
