AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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affected with splenic fever. Two carcasses were seized for this 
cause on the 7tli inst., and six more on the following day. An 
order to destroy eight carcasses was, on the 9th, applied for and 
obtained. Several of the remaining animals already show signs 
of the disease, and the slaughtering is being proceeded with under 
the supervision of the officers of the sanitary authority. The 
fever appears to be of a mild type, there being no carbuncles, 
abscesses or erysipelas. Some of the animals, however, have 
shown marked head symptoms, and there appears to be no doubt 
about the malady being really sang de rate .—(The Lancet .) 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
EXTRACTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HOSPITAL DEPART¬ 
MENT OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The number of animals brought before the class during the 
year ending March, 1880, either for treatment or post mortem 
examination, was 2442, an increase of 546 on the number of 
last year. They are represented as follows: 2198 horses, 12 don¬ 
keys, 3 mules, 6 cows, 13 goats, 171 dogs, 13 cats, 2 chickens, 1 
rabbit. The balance consisted of animals kindly sent for autopsies 
from the menagerie of the Central Park by the superintendant, 
Mr. W. Conklin. They were, 9 monkeys, 2 lions, 2 camels, 1 
bear, 2 tapirs, 1 buffalo, 1 fox, 2 sheep, 1 panther, 1 deer, 1 swan, 
The classification of diseases as represented by these animals is 
as follows: 
1077 for diseases of locomotion. 
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digestion. 
204 
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respiration. 
119 
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circulation. 
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innervation. 
141 
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special senses. 
186 
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examination of soundness. 
