Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-23
The Cattle Disease In Worcester West
Proceedings of the Commissioner ON
Snturdny.-The Slaughter Continued.

Proceedings of the Commits siOners o
Snturday.-The Slaughter Continued.
On Saturday morning last, Commissioner
Walker, with DIR. Dadd of Boston and other
physicians, examined the farm of NathqIiri
W. Hooker of New Braiplree, who owns
twenty-eight head OF cattle, Six of them from
the barn OF Leonard Stoddard of North Brook
held where the disease first broke out They
took three years old steer which came from
Stoddard's lower barn or pest house, and
killed it. The disease was found to be in
the incipient stages, but clearly marked
They next went to the farm of Charles A.
Wilcox, who has twenty eight head, and ex-
amined oxen that had been slightly exposed,
and found them entirely sound. His herd are
supposed to be safe. They then proceeded,
with DR.. G. A. Bates, to the farm of Emmons
Twichell in South Brookfeld, who has fifty
two head. One was killed, and the left lung
found much enlarged There was adhesion
to the chest and diaphragm, and of one lobe
to the other. The left lung was slightly dis
colored.
In the afternoon Gov. Banks was present at
the examinations, with Commissioners Walker
and Lathrop, and Drs. Bates and Dadd Of
Boston, and Thayer Of Brookline, William S.
Lincoln, Esq, OF Worcester, and large mum.
Der of physicians Of North Brooktield and the
adjoining towns. They went first to the farm
of Alden Oimstead, in the north part of North
Brookield, whose herd consisted of thirty.one
haol of in,lu1inor Ave
calves, were brought out and slaughtered, and
eight of them examined. The first animal
examined was red COW, ten years old, which
had been sick three or four months, and show
ed many marks Of the disease. The next was
gray roam, nine years DID, thought by its
owner to be sound. There was slight dis
celebration, and the right lung showed the in
cipent symptoms OF disease. The next was
a black cow, nine years old said to have re-
covered. The left lung was, apparently,
healthy, but the right lung was extensively
diseased. A white heter, seven months old,
which had to be carried portion of the way
to the place of slaughter on account of its
weakness, was next examined. The inferior
portion OF the right lung was in solidi-
fed or hardened condition. The cavity of
the left lung was filled with two quarts of Sc
rum and large quantity of lymph. The
pleura costalis was filled with fibrous lymph.
Its mate about a fortnight ago exhibited the
same symptoms. The mother was then killed
and found to be in the same condition On
the farm Of Leonard Stoddard heifer of Lew
is L. Hill, three years old, which caught the
disease from an adjoining pasture, was killed
undetermined. The killing oftwo other cattle
of the herd of Mr.. Stoddard ended the slaugh
ter for the day, making twenty killed that at
ternoon.
The early symptoms of this alarming dis
ease are, shivering, difficulty of breathing, and
cough. Examinations after death, in acute
diseases, show hardening of the lungs, with
deposit OF lymph in the cavity of the chest.
One extreme case of diseased lungs, thus har.
deLed, was exhibited by DIR. Thayer at the no.
tel in North Brookfeld, Saturday noon. 1t
weighed sixteen pounds, the average weight of
healthy lung being about four pounds
The herds in North Brookfield and New
Braintree, where have occurred all the fatal
cases. exhibit the following statistics of the
original number of cattle in each herd, the
number which have died, the number con.
demned to be killed, the number killed, and
the appraised value of those killed, under the
provisions Of the recent act of the Legislature /: