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to me (and the thought was entirely spontaneous) to recommend 
the employment of coal or coke fires in moveable grates in the 
stable, as close to the ground as possible, with a view to draw into 
them and consume the malaria, germs of fungi, &c.; the fires 
to be burned two or three hours a day, every day, for a fortnight. 
I must confess that I had considerable misgivings and diffidence in 
bringing my mind to this, being apprehensive that I might 
be ridiculed and laughed at, it being an entirely new mode of 
procedure ; however, my suggestion was at once put into practice; 
the fires were moved from place to place in the stable. From 
that very day not another case occurred in those stables, and 
they have continued ever since that time as healthy as any in 
Manchester or Salford. Here we have, I think, evidence of an 
irresistible kind, that the cause, whatever that may have been, was 
removed. 
The second example took place six or eight years after. In a 
stable at Bank Top, belonging to Messrs. Carver and Co.—it was a 
railway arch, which had been recently converted into a stable—almost 
every horse put into it (and there were thirty or forty valuable cart 
horses occupying it) became attacked with a low typhoid form disease 
very shortly after being put into it. Many of the horses were most 
dangerously ill; some died, and others on being at once removed with 
the greatest possible care and difficulty were restored. The horse 
manager said, “ The stable is so unhealthy, I will never send 
another young or good horse into it.” Well, we got fires into these 
stables, and grids a foot square in the walls on the ground surface 
at opposite points, as well as three or four large openings in the 
centre of the arch at the top. From that day the disease ceased, 
and ever since they have been as healthy as any stables in Man¬ 
chester, both with new young horses and also with old seasoned 
horses. So thoroughly convinced are the horse-keepers and horse 
managers of the importance of fires, that they frequently have a 
fire burning in one or two stables whenever there is a season of 
wet weather, to dry the air and to keep them healthy, as they say. 
The third example. At the beginning of December, 1869, I was 
requested by the horse manager of the London and North-Western 
Railway to go to London to examine a stable of theirs at the Broad 
Street station, which was considered an extremely unhealthy stable, 
and had been so for some time, or else the horses took cold during 
their work in a very lofty exposed situation, especially exposed to 
east winds, and being on a level with the top of the chimneys of 
the surrounding neighbourhood. I first was shown two horses 
which were attacked in this stable three or four days before with a 
malignant typhoid disease, and at once removed out of this stable 
(as was the custom) to one at a distance. I found these two 
horses affected with farcy and glanders ; as such, I advised that 
they should be at once destroyed, which was done. The veterinary 
surgeon and his son said that these cases had degenerated into that 
condition only the last few hours, so malignant was the disease. 
We had then to go and inspect the place where they worked, and 
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