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prevailed among herds grazing on these ranges, but it is now be¬ 
lieved they are thoroughly freed from it, as the last known cases 
weae destroyed at Montank, August 28, 1879, and at Bellport, 
August 11, 1879. This portion of the island has been subjected 
to numerous examinations, and is now regarded as entirely free 
from the plague. 
STATEN ISLAND. 
A year ago one case of the plague was discovered on this island. 
The animal was killed. No case has since appeared, and the isl¬ 
and is now regarded as absolutely free from the disease. 
On the 12th and 13th days of February, in company with one 
of the New York inspectors, I visited several stables in Brooklyn. 
I found several chronic cases in the stables, but no acute ones. 
At Johnson avenue slaughter house I was shown a portion of a 
characteristically diseased lung, which had been taken from an 
animal killed a few hours previously. 
On February 14 I visited the stables of Mr. Lang, 109th street 
and 4th avenue, New York, where I found three cows suffering 
with the plague. One of these was a very acute case, and, I was 
informed, had been afflicted but three days. This, and one of 
the others, had been condemned to the offal dock. Mr. Foudre, 
a neighbor of Mr. Langs, lost a cow on the 12th day of February 
by the disease. A week before he had bought a cow from a 
dealer named Louis, and the cow that died was taken sick on the 
day that this cow came to his stable. The nearest stable to Mr. 
Foudre’s place is on 112th street and Fourth avenue. Mr. Fou¬ 
dre had owned the cow he had for eight months. Lang purchased 
his sickest cow from a dealer named Franke some five or six weeks 
previous. She was a “ two titter ” and on that account Franke 
knocked off $5 on her price. She never did well. The other 
two commenced coughing three or four days before my visit. 
On the afternoon of the same day 1 visited the offal dock and 
witnessed the autopsy of Lang’s cows, alluded to above. Both 
cases revealed well marked lesions of acute pleuro-pneumonia 
contagiosa. One of the animals, which showed a temperature of 
105 degrees Fahrenheit and thirty-six respirations per minute, 
