PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Las been brought on hundreds of thriving and industrious farmers and cattle- 
owners by this dreadful visitation.’ 
“ In speaking of Scotland, he says: ‘ It appears from the official returns 
that the attacks in Scotland amount to 46,861, being 4.841 per cent, of the entire 
stock of the country.’ 
‘‘In Ireland hut fifty cattle were exposed to the disease; twenty-nine were 
attacked and either died or were killed, and twenty-one were slaughtered healthy. 
“Nothing can show more clearly the propriety of the ‘stamping-out pro¬ 
cess’ than this result. In it we have a parallel with what took place in France, 
where only forty-three animals, healthy and diseased, were sacrificed to the 
pole-axe, the country being thereby freed from the plague.” 
The Cattle Plague Act alluded to above, resembles the law passed by the 
Legislature of Massachusetts at the extra session, in its general features; and 
the course adopted by the authori ties of Great Britain, in relation to rinderpest, 
is similar to that taken by the present Board of Commissioners in Massachusetts 
in relation to •pleuro-pneumonia. 
Prof. Sim on ds further says that a focus of the disease still exists; conse¬ 
quently the law passed by Congress, preventing the lauding of any cattle from 
foreign seaports, should be continued in force. 
We append to this Report a statement of the entire expenditure by the 
State of Massachusetts for the extirpation of the disease since its commence¬ 
ment in 1860, obtained from the treasurer’s books, which is $67,511.08. In ad¬ 
dition to this amount, the several towns where the disease has been found have 
paid one-fifth of the cost of isolation, and of the appraised value of all the 
cattle killed, amounting to a sum which we estimate at $10,u00. (There is no 
priuted report of the number of cattle killed by order of the selectmen of 
towns in 1863.) 
The amount paid from the treasury on account of pleuro-pneumonia is as 
follows:— 
In 1860, 
$28,733.21 
1861, 
1862, 
1863, 
1864, 
1865, 
1866, 
14,118.43 
4,525.86 
6,657.32 
7,467.07 
5,622.84 
386.35 
$67,511.08 
E. F. THAYEIi, 
CHAS. P. PRESTON, 
F. D. LINCOLN, 
Commissioners. 
December 28th, 1866. 
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