American Veterinary Review, 
JULY, 1884. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 
OF BROOKLYN. 
By Professor L. McLean, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Inspector. 
Department of Health, 
Brooklyn, December 26, 1883. 
J. II. Raymond , M.D ., Commissioner Department of Health: 
Sir —In this, my annual report as Veterinary Inspector to 
your Board, I beg to particularly draw attention to the contin¬ 
ued and increasing prevalance of contagious pleuro-pneumonia 
amongst the milch cows of the city and the immediate surround¬ 
ing district, with the hope that you may be able to bring some 
concentrated action to bear to stamp out a disease that is finan¬ 
cially ruining those who are locally engaged in the trade, supply¬ 
ing our families with unwholesome milk, and many of our butcher 
shops with beef, if not directly dangerous, certainly in the highest 
degree non-nutritious. 
My official capacity as Veterinary Inspector to your Board 
during a number of years, and my active connection with the 
commission appointed by Governor Robinson in 1879, under 
General Patrick, enables me to speak with a practical knowledge 
of the actual state of matters down to date; and I consider that 
it may be safely stated that there is in the Union no other city of 
the same extent, in which the milk-producing stock is so exten¬ 
sively affected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
