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EDITORIAL 
In a Massachusetts paper recently sent us appeared an article 
relating to a disease with which a heifer was affected and destroyed 
at South Hadley. Dr. Cressy of Amherst was called to see 
the case, which had been suspected as pleuro-pneumoma. His 
post-mortem examination showed the lungs to weigh twenty-six 
pounds. The bronchial tubes were found full of mucous froth. 
Dr. C. pronounced the disease catarrhal fever or bronchial 
catarrh. This was a decided relief to the farmers in that vicinity, 
us another animal was similarly affected* and an outbreak of 
pleuro-pneumonia thought to be imminent. Dr. C. was called the 
third week in November to Waterbary, Ct., where he found twenty 
or thirty cases of the same disease. He also encountered it at Hart- 
land, Ct. It is not contagious and no fatal cases have been reported, 
although the one at South Hadley would, undoubtedly, have 
proved so. It is an influenza somewhat like the epizootic which 
afflicted horse-flesh in 1872, although, happily, not yet as wide¬ 
spread.’’ Our readers may draw their own inferences from the 
above report, and some will, no doubt, recall similar expressions 
of opinion given a year ago regarding pleuro-pneumonia in New 
York. 
The New Hampshire Patriot , issued at Concord on Jan. 8th, 
1880, under the head of “ Pleuro-Pneumonia,” contains a long 
account of an outbreak of disease at Haverhill, N. H., and which 
had given rise to considerable excitement among the people of 
the vicinity, who suspected it to be contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
Dr. Thayer of Boston, Mass., visited the affected animals on the 
29th of December, in company with the State Commission, and 
the results of his investigation are given below in conjunction 
with the reporter’s description of the hygienic conditions found. 
The barns seemed to be well situated for light and air, but the 
Commission objected to the ventilation. Twenty calves were 
found housed in a space eighteen feet long, twelve feet wide and 
seven feet high—being tied up in two rows, one on either side. 
“There had been improvement in the sick animals since the time 
of the Commission’s first visit, but quite a number were more or 
(*The italics are ours.—Ed. A. V. E.) 
