GLANDERS. 
405 
day, of the official returns, from which it appears that the deaths 
within the six months ended February 29, were only 64, viz. 
from glanders 44, and from farcy 20. Moreover, it appears 
that although there was a decided increase in the number of 
cases disclosed after the outbreak at Colville Mews last April, 
the horses slaughtered were not so many as represented, the 
highest monthly total in 1879 having been 11, whereas we had 
been led to understand that there had been a monthly average 
of 20. The recorded deaths for the whole year were 81, viz. 
from glanders 57, and from farcy 24, of which 76 occurred 
between April and December, and only five in the first quarter 
of the year. It will be remembered, however, that I stated in 
my Third Report for 1879 (April 2nd, p. 19), that there were 
grounds for believing that some 10 horses had been slaughtered 
or had died of the disease in one man’s stables in those three 
months, the cases having been concealed. In the first quarter 
of the current year there was a marked increase in the number 
of cases recorded , the horses slaughtered on account of glanders 
being 85, and farcy 20—total 55. 
The subjoined table shows the monthly number of horses 
slaughtered, and of infected places. The total number of in¬ 
fected places (separate stables) in the 15 months being 60. 
Month. 
Horses Slaughtered. 
Infected Places. 
1879. 
1880. 
1879. 
1880. 
Glanders 
Farcy. 
Glanders 
Farcy. 
January . 
2 
• « • 
7 
5 
2 
11 
February 
2 
• • • 
13 
7 
2 
11 
March . 
• • • 
1 
15 
8 
1 
15 
April 
2 
5 
3 
May 
6 
4 
8 
June 
8 
2 
8 
July 
8 
1 
8 
August . 
5 
3 
5 
September 
6 
1 
5 
October . 
6 
2 
7 
November 
6 
• • • 
5 
December 
6 
5 
G 
57 
24 
35 
20 
The following table shows the localities where the disease 
existed, the number of “ infected places 33 (i. e. stables), and 
the total number of cases in each; but in some stables there 
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