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ady, and report the same without unnecessary delay. Meanwhile 
this State has passed a law similar to that of New York and New 
Jersey. 
On March 27th, in company with Secretary Edge and mem¬ 
bers of the House, I visited a herd in York County, and after 
declaring the disease to be contagious pleuro-pneumonia, the 
owner kindly allowed us to kill an infected calf for post-mortem 
purposes. The characteristic lesions were most beautifully de¬ 
veloped, and the history of the cases proved that the infection 
was introduced by some steers which the gentleman had bought 
from Baltimore , Md. The investigation has been carried on up 
to the present time, and the counties of Philadelphia, Delaware, 
Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and York are found infected. What 
others there may be, we have not yet ascertained, deeming it 
unnecessary to carry on the work any farther until the Governor 
had a report in full and had acted thereon. 
In all this work, I desire to express my kind appreciation of the 
very valuable assistance rendered by J. Westley Gadsden, M.R.- 
C.Y.S., of Philadelphia, as well also as to exonerate him of those 
malicious charges which certain parties have intimated against 
him. His work in this matter has been purely unselfish , and 
was prompted only by those motives which look toward the actual 
good of the Commonwealth. From the fact that a body of men, 
stjding themselves the “Penna. College of Veterinary Surgeons,” 
had visited some of the same herds which I had pronounced to 
be infected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and denied the 
existence of this disease in a ' contagious form, it was decided to 
hold a meeting of the Commissioners in Philadelphia, where these 
conflicting opinions might be heard and weighed. The 16th and 
17th of May were designated as the time for this meeting, and 
it has resulted in proving quite dearly that the position taken by 
Dr. Gadsden, myself and a few others was correct, and that we 
have contagious pleuro pneumonia in our midst. I cannot refrain 
from giving a sample of the intelligence (?) which the “Penna. 
College of Veterinary Surgeons ” displayed at this meeting on 
Saturday, 17th inst. They denied the existence of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia in this State, and implied a very strong doubt 
