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was melted down, but what became of it he could not say. 
A juror : Does it go to the fried-fish shops? Witness could 
not say, but there was a great demand for it. 
Dr. Dudfield read Clause 31 of the Contagious Diseases 
(Animals) Act, which enacted that the carcases of all dis¬ 
eased animals should be destroyed. 
Mr. Bacon, the proprietor of the stables, said that he had 
twenty horses which were used in cabs, the majority of which 
got knocked up by being overworked by the drivers. 
The jury ultimately returned the following verdict: “ That 
the deceased, Emily Susan Hulbert, was found dying and 
expired from the mortal effects of glanders, contracted at 
No. 16, Colville Mews, Kensington, her sister having pre¬ 
viously died from the same disease; and the jurors are 
further of opinion that the provisions of the Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act of 1878, with reference to the out¬ 
break of glanders and to the treatment and exposure of 
the carcases of horses suffering from such disease, have 
not been duly carried out; and it further appears that the 
provisions of the Metropolitan Slaughterhouses Act of 1874 
have been violated; and the jury further desire that the 
facts given in evidence shall be brought before the Privy 
Council, and such steps be taken as to avoid if possible the 
occurrence of such accidents for the future.” 
BROWN INSTITUTION—REPORT OE THE EXPERIMENTS ON 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
The following is the concluding report on the experiments 
at the Brown Institution on Pleuro-Pneumonia, by J. Burdon- 
Sanderson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., late Superintendent of the 
Brown Institution, extracted from the current number of the 
Royal Agricultural Society's Journal . 
The inquiries which were undertaken in 1876, relating to 
the origin and nature of pleuro-pneumonia, and to the use of 
inoculation as a means of preventing its spread, having now 
been brought to a conclusion for the present, in consequence of 
the legislative difficulties which stand in the way of further 
experiment, I beg leave to submit to the Council the following 
statement of the results of our labours. 
The circumstances which led to the inquiry were set forth 
in a preliminary report which was published in 1876. At 
that time no experiments had been made, but our first batch 
of experimental animals had been purchased, viz. two cows, 
two calves, and four other animals of different ages. They 
had been kept at Wandsworth Road for three months—a 
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