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police officer, nor to any other agent, who, like him, is entirely 
ignorant of any veterinary knowledge. 
Ihe English report of 1874, taking into consideration the 
lesults obtained by the chief inspector, with isolation , in cases of 
pleuro-pneumonia, sent to local English authorities a circular 
giving the regulations to carry on the slaughtering and isolation. 
Here is a resume of this circular : 
Notwithstanding Art. 3, of the circular of 1873, on animals, 
prescribing the obligatory slaughtering of pneumonic animals, 
the privy council , attributing in great part the continuation of 
the prevailing pleuro-pneumonia to the delay of the slaughtering 
and to the neglect of execution of Art. 19 of the law of 1871, 
ate of opinion that the disease would be efficaciously stopped by 
other dispositions, if executed in the following manner : 
1st. Cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia must be killed in 
the shortest time possible. 
2d. The internal temperature of each animal, which has been 
exposed to the contagion, must be observed, and the herd divided 
in two separated lots: 
The lot A will include animals whose temperature will rise 
above 103 bar. These will be destroyed in the shortest time, if 
positive symptoms of pleuro-pneumonia become manifest. 
The lot B will include the balance of the herd. Those 
animals will be examined with the thermometer every week, and 
transferred to lot A if their temperature rises above 103° Far. 
At last, Mr. Fleming, in his last work on sanitary science, in 
the article on pleuro-pneumonia, tells us that animals, whose tem¬ 
perature reaches 100° but not less than 102° Far. are suspicious , 
while those giving a record of 102° to 103° are diseased. 
In the presence of these affirmative data, I have decided to 
verify myself what degree of usefulness practically can be ob¬ 
tained by thermometrical observations. Those which I have 
made, though limited, I report. In cities, where one is not daily 
called upon to visit diseased cows | rather than to call a veterin - 
arian, they are sent to the slaughter houses and thence to the meat 
market. 
{To be continued) 
