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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
other bovine diseases investigated. With that object in view, a 
bill was passed appropriating $1,500 for the purpose. It fell into 
the hands of the politicians, and was used to no purpose. Again, 
in 1867 a bill was passed conferring upon township committees 
the right to investigate, quarantine and slaughter all infected 
animals in certain districts, but there being no appropriation 
made, the bill was necessarily unconstitutional, and the commit¬ 
tees not meeting with any encouragement from outside parties, 
but rather becoming unpopular, so far as we can learn, it was 
not in a single case enforced, and has remained upon the statute 
books as a dead letter ever since. The disease continuing to 
make rapid progress, in connection with the action of the New 
1 ork Legislature, a heavy pressure was being brought to bear 
upon the Legislature by suffering stock-raisers, a bilAvas framed 
similar m its working to the New York bill. Under its provisions 
o on el W. H. Sterling, of Plainfield, N. J., was appointed 
Cattle Commissioner. Notwithstanding the Commission has not 
yet got in regular working order, enough has been gained to war¬ 
rant us in saying we are destined to find more of the malady than 
we were led to believe existed, and since inoculation has been 
practiced in this part so extensively, we may safely say many 
cases that would otherwise have escaped, will now have to be 
fitted for and disposed of to the butcher. Mild, chronic and what 
are termed vaccinated cases are the rule, while the acute are the 
exception. 
CONDITION OF THE MILK IN COWS SUFFERING WITH PLEURO¬ 
PNEUMONIA. 
By J. Blake White, M.D., Assistant Sanitary Inspector. 
Sanitary Bureau, Health Department, ) 
New York, Feb. 24, 1879. \ 
Walter 1). F. Day , fi/./k, Sanitary Superintendent : 
Sir : At the time of my official inspection of the cows con¬ 
fined in the stables connected with the distillery of Messrs. Gaff, 
