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been adopted, to the manifest benefit of everybody con¬ 
cerned, inasmuch as it appeared from the account that the 
investigation of nearly fifty reputed cases of pleuro-pneu- 
monia among cattle led to the discovery that only three or 
four of the suspected animals were really suffering from 
that malady. 
It is still a matter of regret that the authorities all over 
the country are disposed, from motives of economy, to employ 
unskilled persons as inspectors for the purpose of carrying 
into effect the provisions of the Act and Order. A gradual 
improvement, however, appears to be taking place, and we 
are informed that two counties have selected none but 
members of the veterinary profession for the office of veteri¬ 
nary inspectors, and we cannot avoid suggesting that the 
more the members interest themselves in the working of 
sanitary legislation, the more highly are their services likely 
to be estimated. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
HISTORY OF CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN 
NEW YORK. 
By J. D. Hopkins, D.Y.S. Read before the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association. 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, —From reliable in¬ 
formation we learn that in the year 1843 the “ Lung Plague ” 
was introduced into Brooklyn by a cow purchased by Peter 
Dunn, milkman, and kept in a stable near South Ferry. 
This cow was imported from Holland. She sickened and 
died in this stable, and infected the other cattle which were 
kept there. From this point the disease was soon carried to 
the great distillery stables of John D. Winters, foot of 4th 
Street, and into the Skillman Street brewery stables. In 
these stables, as in similar cases in other countries, the dis¬ 
ease continued to prevail, and nineteen years later was found 
in the Skillman Street stables by the Massachusetts Board 
of Cattle Commissioners, who, to satisfy themselves of the 
nature of the malady, verified their diagnosis by slaughtering 
an animal and making an autopsy. This occurred in 1862. 
In the year 1849, Wm. Meakin, of Bush wick, kept a large 
dairy, and used a yoke of oxen to draw grains from the 
