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and milk. He fully described the various means to be adopted 
in preventing the introduction of, and stamping out of the disease 
when present in any country. He was pleased to state that this 
disease was unknown in Canada at the present time, and with the 
present efficient system of quarantine was sure that it was next 
to impossible for this or any other contagious disease to obtain a 
foothold in Canada. A lively discussion followed the reading of 
the paper, in which many interesting points were brought out by 
the members as to the transmissibility to man, the use of flesh for 
human food, etc. A vote of thanks was passed to the readers of 
the papers. At the next meeting. Mr. D. E. P. Campbell will 
communicate a case, subject, “ Injuries to the Eye,” and Dr. Wm. 
McEachran will read a paper on the subject of Tetanus.— The 
Gazette , (Montreal). 
PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY GOVERNOR CULLOM. 
State of Illinois, Executive Department, 
Springfield , Ills., November I, 1881. 
In pursuance of the Act of the General Assembly of the State 
of Illinois, entitled “An Act to suppress and prevent the spread 
of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle,” approved May 31, I, Shelby 
M. Cullom, Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby proclaim 
that I have good reason to believe that pleuro-pneumonia among 
cattle has become epidemic in certain localities in the States of 
Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, 
and Maryland—viz.: In the County of Fairfield, in the State of 
Connecticut; in the Counties of Putnam, Westchester, Kings 
and Queens, in the State of New York; in the Counties of 
Lehigh, Bucks, Berks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Delaware, 
Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams and Cumberland, in the State 
of Pennsylvania; in the Counties of Bergen, Hudson, Morris, 
Essex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Mercer, Mon¬ 
mouth, Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Atlantic, in 
the State of New Jersey ; in the County of Newcastle, in the 
