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STATISTICS. 
STATISTICS. 
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STATISTICAL REPORT, 
Regarding Malleus humidus et farciminosus in the Kingdom of Prussia, for the 
last three-quarters of the year 1876, from the Report of the “ Technischen 
Deputation fur das Veterinair wesen,” by Virchow, in his Archiv, Vol. 67 
No. 2. 
Number of invested districts. 
“ “ villages. 
farms or stables.. 
horses in invested places.. 
diseased. 
which died. 
were officially killed. 
“ killed by owners 
2 quarters. 
119 
406 
457 
4,235 
949 
47 
736 
89 
3d quarter. 
202 
451 
552 
4,918 
878 
45 
691 
76 
4th quarter. 
180 
338 
416 
3,505 
592 
21 
436 
79 
From the above, it will be seen that 2,419 horses were reported as 
diseased, and that from this number died. 113 
Officially killed. # 1863 
Killed by owners, without compulsion. 244 
Total 
2,220 
Virchow says, in his remarks, that the above is a striking proof of 
the carrying out of the new law relating to contagious diseases in ani¬ 
mals, and that it is also a comforting assurance of a lessening of one 
cause ot danger to human life. It will be observed that there is a de- 
ciease in the number reported and killed each quarter, and this decrease 
must be accredited to the executive force of our Veterinary police sys¬ 
tem. Kegaiding the contagium of this disease, Virchow says, that I 
have held to the opinion that the contagium of glanders is of a fixed 
nature. The conception of its volatile nature is widely outspread, and 
many facts are, it must be acknowledged, in support of such an idea. 
But the above table confirms him in the view of the fixidity of the con¬ 
tagium, a view which he has held for a long time (Spec. Path, u Thrapic 
Erlangen, 185o, Vol. 2, Page 410), viz.: “ that the validity of the con¬ 
tagium of glanders has not been sufficiently proven.” 
F. S. B. 
