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SANITARY STATEMENTS. 
in contact therewith; and the fact that the raucous membrane 
and muscular coat of the bowels remained perfectly healthy, 
proves conclusively to my mind that the inflammation of the 
peritoneal covering arose solely from contact with the escaped 
ingesta. In addition to the part actually ruptured, there was 
another portion almost immediately in contact therewith, which 
had given way so far as the peritoneal covering was concerned, 
but the muscular and mucous coats remained intact; this rent 
extended for about six- or eight inches, and had an average 
width of about half an inch, portions being as wide as double 
that distance.— Ibid. 
GOOD FOR VETERINARY GRADUATES. 
At the commencement exercises of the University Medical 
Department, which occurred on the 10th of March, Dr. E. 
Vreeland and. Kichard Kay, already graduates of the American 
Veterinary College, received their degrees of M.D. Dr. 
Vreeland stood first in a class of 189 candidates in order of 
merit. 
SANITARY STATEMENTS. 
The report of the various district veterinarians, addressed to 
W. McEachran, M.D., V.S., Consulting Veterinarian to the 
Department of Agriculture of Winnipeg, on the sanitary condi¬ 
tion of stocks in the territory during the months of January and 
February, return: Seven horses discharged for chronic glanders, 
and four quarantined as suspicious. Six calves had died with an¬ 
thrax, and four horses were found affected with scabies .—North 
West Farmer. 
From Ohio, Dr. J. C. Meyers, Jr., furnishes the following state¬ 
ments : 
In the six months ending January 1, ’85, he has had nine 
cases of anthrax in cows, of which three died, and four calves 
