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carefully noted by our readers, and that those who may have op¬ 
portunities of testing them in their cattle practice will report to 
us the results they may obtain in the application of the rules laid 
down by those veterinarians. 
SANITARY STATEMENTS. 
Our usual call for these has as yet found but little attention on 
the part of our confreres, or of our sanitary veterinarians. 
As it is important that they should be published, we would 
once again ask of our readers to forward us a statement, as cor¬ 
rect as possible, of the number of cases of contagious diseases 
that they may have had to treat in the last semester of 1884. 
SANITARY CONDITION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN BELGIUM. 
By J. W. Wehenkel. 
(From the Bulletin du Comite Conmltatif de Police Sanitaire V’eterinaire.') 
During the second trimester of the year 1884, the following 
contagions diseases have been observed: 
1st. Rabies ok Hydrophobia.— During the first three months 
of 1884 that disease was observed only upon three dogs, which 
had been brought to the clinic of the Brussels schools. During 
the following months tvventv-three cases were observed in the 
various circumscriptions. Amongst those twenty-one were ob¬ 
served amongst dogs, and two in cattle. 
In one of the circumscriptions, several persons and one don¬ 
key had been bitten by one of the rabid dogs. Sixty-three' which 
had been bitten were destroyed as suspected of contamination. 
2d. Anthrax.— In this second trimester, forty-nine animals 
were affected with some of the forms of anthrax, against fifty- 
eight in the first. 
3d. Hog Cholera. —Over one hundred and fifty-one cases of 
this disease were reported in five of the Provinces. On account 
of its prevailing extensively in some districts, the Academy of 
Medicine of Belgium has reached the following conclusions: 
1st. Animals used for consumption ought to be examined 
before killing. 
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