GLANDERS. SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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GLANDERS. 
WHAT IS BEING DONE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
TO STAMP OUT THE DISEASE. 
From the Winnipeg Free Press , Manitoba, Canada, Feb. 13, 1884. 
From information received from correspondents in different 
parts of the Province, there is every reason to fear that glanders 
is exceedingly prevalent amoug horses. This disease is invaria¬ 
bly fatal in its effects, is highly infections and contagious, and 
dangerous alike to man and beast. Tn the absence of any practi¬ 
cable law relating to diseases of animals during the earlier settle¬ 
ment of the Province, glanders appears to have secured a foot¬ 
hold. It is, however, gratifying to know that the Department of 
Agriculture, Statistics and Health has commenced a vigorous 
campaign with the object of securing its eradication. The utility 
of the new law passed by the Legislative Assembly last session 
has already become evident. Since then a Veterinary Sanitary- 
Service has been established as a branch of the Department, with 
a consulting veterinarian as adviser of the Department and fifteen 
district veterinarians acting in different counties. These have 
been instructed to rigidly carry out the law, and it is hoped that 
further spread of the disease will be averted. Many of the pub¬ 
lic are probably not aware of the serious results which would 
arise if prompt measures were not takeu to stay the progress of 
the disease. The State of Illinois was visited last year by an 
epidemic of glanders which proved so destructive to horses and 
included so many human beings among its victims that the State 
Legislature voted a special appropriation of $25,000 to secure its 
stamping out. It is hoped that such an expenditure will not be 
necessary in Manitoba, but the people of the Province will no 
doubt endorse any reasonable expenditures incurred. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-first semi-annual meeting of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association was held at Young’s Hotel, Bos- 
