ial ia CR eee oS RR oie eterna att hh dade Sp Pry key apr, el 7. rer nals y cvhainp . ‘ 7 ny : - res : + 2 r “ ~ whether Jk SOC ae el el or bn ange oe babe: SARA Seite FEC Yoemer Pan ey ; c vec g A Ou ) E ie = id) oi A Ri me a4 . g Ay a i@) 6 Zi = a :4 a ay me ue ° 3 a arene a ae oC aime RES ee nny < Somerset 63,673 head. All these proved to be entirely safe from Texas fever infection except permits given in April for 1,501 cattle from Pecos county, Texas, and shipped from Midland, Texas, via Texas & Pacific railroad and M. K. & T. Ry., to Hartford, Kas., and per- mits given in June for 500 cattle from and to same point as above. The establishment of separate feed yards at Fort Worth, Texas, for cattle from the safe area in Texas, consigned to Kansas for grazing purposes, proved to be en- tirely safe, no Texas fever infection resulting therefrom. This office has cognizance of more than 20,000 cattle that have been shipped into Kansas by the various railway companies between February 1 and December 1, 1892, in violation of the Kansas quarantine rules and regulations. Respectfully submitted, ALBERT DEAN, Inspector. 10 LIVE-STOCK SANITARY COMMISSION. REPORT OF STATE VETERINARIAN. To the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission of Kansas: GENTLEMEN —I have the honor to submit herewith the biennial report of the State Veterinarian, covering the time from the 3lst of December, 1890, to the 31st of December, 1892. During this time about 2,500 communications have been received at this office. Most of those letters relate to diseases among domestic animals. Among the con- tagious diseases reported, were Texas fever among cattle, and farcy and glanders among horses and mules. One donkey was reported glandered. All communica- tions have been promptly answered in writing, or given personal attention by visit- ing the locality where contagious disease was reported, inspecting the same establishing quarantine where such was necessary, and recommending sanitary reg- ulations, etc., for the prevention of the spread of disease. Quarantine regulations and rules have been sent to the different railroad companies doing business in the State, and also to the Live Stock Inspectors and to individuals, when asked for. Copies of important letters sent out have been kept on file. Upon the request of county sheriffs, and of responsible persons, or by orders given me by members of your honorable Board, I have made personal visits to 58 counties, in order to inspect stock reported suffering with malignant disease. Some of the counties I nave been obliged to visit more than once. HKighty-six horses and 40 mules, which I pronounced glandered after inspection, have been reported to me as having been killed and the carcasses buried or burned. In some cases when I found animals glandered, the owners refused to allow them to be destroyed. In those cases I placed a temporary quarantine upon the diseased animals, and reported the facts in the case to the President of your Board. Ninety- seven horses have been temporarily quarantined on account of having been exposed -to either glandered or farcied animals; and 18 mules have been quarantined for a short time for the same reason as above. In making my last report, I stated that four-fifths of the cases of glanders and farcy reported to this office were from the counties bordering upon Nebraska, in the north, and upon the Indian Territory, in the south. The few cases which were reported from the more central part of the State were almost always traceable to some diseased animal which had been got from some traveling trader who came either from Nebraska or from the Indian Territory. I should also wish to state that the “field-work” of this office could be much more efficiently and economically done were a clerk allowed to the State Veterina- rian, as the clerk could advise the State Veterinarian by wire to go from point to point, when his services were required, without returning to his office after each separate trip of inspection to examine his mail and find out where to go next, as under the existing order of things he is obliged to do. ® After two more years of experience in this business, I found nothing to add to or take from the above. GLANDERS AND FAROY. Glanders and farcy being both malignant diseases, and due to the same micro- organism (Bacillus mallet), and differing only in location and degree of severity, 4 7 THIRD BIENNIAL REPORT. 11 should be handled with extreme caution, as the disease is readily communicated from the horse to man by inoculation, and from animal to animal by contagion, and by infection when the hygiene is defective. In the climate of this State it is the exception to find the disease spread by infection. I have met with cases where ‘the disease had been communicated to man from glandered animals. In my last re- port, I gave a synopsis of the course to be pursued to avoid contagion, and where premises had been contaminated, recommended measures for the removal of the virus from places where diseased animals had been kept. As this report may reach persons who may not be able to procure the last one, I shall state fully in this | article what I therein said on the subject. “My experience is, that unless glandered animals are kept in badly ventilated and badly-drained stables, and healthy animals are crowded in with them, they are not very likely to take the disease by infection in the dry climate of this State. Of course, no sensible person would place an animal known to be glandered with healthy stock, as there is always danger of inoculation by the discharge from the nose of a glandered animal becoming attached to the feed box, hitching post, etc., and virus being afterwards taken up by the healthy animal. “Glanders, in its mild, chronic form, is not always easily diagnosed even by an expert. But when an animal has been exposed to this disease, and afterwards shows even negative symptoms of glanders, it is always safest and best to isolate such sus- picious animal for several months, if it is not seen fit to destroy it. In my judg- ment, this latter course would be the proper course to follow. “T have seen a case, quite recently, in which a horse that had been herded with glandered stock for some time, but showed no symptoms at all of the disease himself, was placed in quarantine 90 days on account of having been exposed to the disease. When the 90 days’ quarantine expired, and he still appeared to be all right, he was allowed to go free. Two months later, however, he started to discharge from the nose; ulceration of the lining membrane of the nose took place, enlargement and induration of the sub-maxillary glands followed, and a clear case of sub-acute glanders was developed. This shows how very cautious we should be in turning loose suspicious animals or those which have been exposed to this dread disease. When ulceration of the lining membrane of the nostrils takes place, we should not hesi- tate at all in destroying the animal so affected, as this ulceration of the Scheneiderian membrane is a pathognomonic symptom of glanders. That is a symptom which belongs to glanders only. So many able descriptions of glanders have been given by authors on veterinary science, that I do not see any necessity to take up space with an additional description here. As there is no successful treatment for this disease known, nothing need be said upon the subject.” Farcy I have found to be amenable to treatment in the first stage of the disease, but I do not advise any person to make this experiment, as the risk of spreading the disease, or of the operator getting inoculated, is too great; of course, in case a very valuable animal was so affected, and strict precautions were observed, an effort might be made to save the animal. I will repeat, this is an 6xperiment that no other than a professional man should undertake, on account of the danger attend- ing it. Contagious pleuro-pneumonia does not exist in the State at this time, nor has it existed during my term of office. BLAOKLEG. This disease has appeared in several localities, and all persons who have requested advice have been furnished with information as to how to treat it when present, and the most effectual preventive measures to take for the benefit of those animals which might be attacked by the disease. Li pe ; a8 en SUL Oe Uae ve ne : 12 LIvE-S TOOK r SANITARY ’ Comars 1SSIO iv HOG CHOLERA. No cases of this nature have demanded attention. The Figsae appeared hogs in some joealtties, but no > report of ie exact number lost has bee tions will, no doubt, receive attention at your hands. 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