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EDITORIAL. 
increasing trepidation the insidious growth which this disease has 
made, and they have from time to time warned our authorities of 
the great risks which inaction in the matter invited. 
New Jersey, in 1873, ’74, and ’77, experienced three import¬ 
ant local outbreaks, without attracting especial attention from the 
authorities of the State, and numerous points of infection undoubt¬ 
edly exist within her borders to-day. 
Connecticut and New York States have, at various recent 
periods, met with serious losses from the same cause, and Long 
Island—the principal pest-hole of the disease—numbers hundreds 
of cattle now infected with the contagion. There can be no doubt 
that this latter locality has, since the introduction of the disease there 
in 1843, been the main centre from which it has been propagated 
to surrounding districts, for the authorities have looked on in 
silent contemplation without taking a single precaution to prevent 
its spread or adopting a single means of eradication. 
To England’s anxiety for protection against the introduction of 
animals affected with contagious diseases, and the search for facts 
regarding rumors of pleura-pneumonia within our borders made 
by the Canadian government through Prof. McEachran, do we 
owe the present warranted excitement in this matter. 
The village of Biissville, lying on the outskirts of Brooklyn, 
between Kings and Queens counties, enjoys an unenviable notor¬ 
iety by reason of the large number of cattle within its limits that 
are infected witli contagious pleuro-pneumonia, for of the nearly 
900 cattle in the district, it is, according to inspecting veterinary 
surgeons, somewhat difficult to find a healthy one. It was the 
report to the Canadian government of the casual inspection made 
of these and other stables that precipitated the investigation that 
is now being so thoroughly made. 
With commendable promptness our Governor, under the pro¬ 
visions made by the law of 1878, relating to infectious diseases of 
animals, appointed Prof. Law, of Cornell University, to make a 
personal investigation of the cattle throughout the State. 
The investigation was begun on Long Island, and shortly 
resulted in a report to the Governor of the serious extent to which 
pleuro-pneumonia was present there, and the necessary steps 
