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GLANDERS IN ILLINOIS. 
vades the dingy and filthy rooms in the house, in spite of a very 
recent sham performance of disinfection with chloride of lime, 
which was said to have been sprinkled here and there, but perhaps 
only in the room that was occupied by the deceased father and son 
during their brief illness. The adjacent rooms, and the rooms up 
stairs, were occupied by the widow and about half a dozen chil¬ 
dren of both sexes, varying from about six to over twenty years 
old. 
The dwelling is one of the old landmarks of the township, be¬ 
ing upwards of forty years old, and it has evidently for many years 
back received no other repairs than such as were most necessary to 
ward off the worst of wind and wet, evidenced by rude and clumsy 
patching here and there, the weather-boards being disarranged and 
loose everywhere. 
Along the highways, on both sides, is what in former days was 
a picket fence, but now only partly represents such a structure, 
half of it being down and all of it rotten, and the posts and re¬ 
maining railing bearing evidence of having been used for hitching 
horses, who, with their teeth, have rendered it still more unsightly 
and useless. 
Opposite the dwelling-house, on the other side of the public 
highway, and close to the same, is the stable, a rude structure of 
common boards, and about twenty-five by fifty feet, having, under 
an extension of the roof, on both sides, space for grain, &c. The 
stable has a sort of ceiling of loose rafters and boards, on which is 
placed a small quantity of hay and rubbish, and the shingled gable 
roof is about twenty-five feet high from the ground. There are 
five stalls with mangers, the construction of which is in keeping 
with the building. 
In the stalls were five horses of various ages, and in moderate¬ 
ly fair condition, as to flesh ; otherwise they were dirty and rough 
looking. One by one they were led outside for inspection, and 
were found to be suffering with glanders in various stages of de¬ 
velopment. 
Af ter returning to Coleta, in the evening, I advised the Town 
Board of Health to send a constable with a written notice to the 
widow of the late Wellington Conaway, informing her that, under 
