Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21
THE EpIzoollC DlSrEMPER.
How, ii Affects Bau-Nhat the Commits
sioncr of Agriculture SAYS About II.


How, IL Affects Bau-VVhnt the Commits
sioncr of Agriculture SAYS ABOUT 1t.
In the annual report of the Commits
sioner of Agriculture there is an inter
estiug and valuable article on the
epizootic aphth@, which broke out in
this country in 1870. 1t says that
though no unbroken chain of evidence
; concerning the source of that outbreak
is forthcoming, no one acquainted with
tie nature of the disease can for mo
ment doubt that it was imported from
Europe. Though certainly prevailing
in Central Europe for nearly two CEN
turtles, 1t reached Great Britain only in
1889, Denmark III 1871, and America
in 1870 No atmospheric or climate
changes would account for such results
Diseases like influenza, which appear
TO be due to such vicissitudes, sweep
over simultaneously, or nearly so,
our continents and islands, and
even ships in mid ocean; where
us this is circumscribed for CEN
turtles by IL narrow sea or well-guarded
neck of land, and crosses only when
the victims are allowed tot pass. More
over, in each OF these cases definite
importation can be traced Cattle
shipped from. an English port in
J August showed signs of the disease
when two days at sea, and landed APP.
parently well, but conveyed 1t to the
stock among which they were placed on
their arrival in Canada. Whether it
spread from this point, or whether
there was another importation, there
is no evidence to show Its existence
was reported at Oriskany, Oneida
county, in September, about the time
Of the State Agricultural show mt Utica,
supposed to have been brought by
Canadian cattle, but subsequent in
more than report for this alleged ori-
gin. At different times from the 18th
of November to the 7th of December
it was brought into Duchess county
by five separate droves from Albany,
which had been carried east on the
! New York Central Railroad. 1t pre-
{ vailed extensively, and caused great
, losses at Armenia, Pawling, South Do
yer, Dover Plains, and La Grange.
a From Duchess county 1T was conveye ed
into Connecticut, and spread widely
in New Milford, Kent and Sherman.
1t was also conveyed to the valley OF
the Connecticut river, and spread in
the towns of Hadley, Northampton
and East Hampton. The disease wss
, also conveyed to Brighton, Mass,
, and spread extensively around Bos'
ton, Concord, Ipswich, Newburyport,
> Acton, etc, reaching some points Ill
New Hampshire.
The only cause of itself capable OF
inducing the disease is contagion OF
contact of sound animal with the
virus discharged from the sores OF an
aphthous patient Many accessory
causes may be named, such MS n vet,
: muddy season, which insures the con.
tact of the virus deposited on the soil
with the skin about the tops Of the
) hoofs; the accumulation of cattle il
. large fairs or markets; travel of stock
e by rail or road. and the like Yet these
! are but means of the diffusion of the
l poison, while no one of them, nor all
taken together can call the disease
into existence where the poison is not
2 already present. Though present in
Europe during or after almost every
great war since 1895, it did not
reach Great Britain until 1899, when il
was brought by Dutch cattle imported
, into London. In 1871 it is
first reported III Denmark
i The list of real causes is narrowed
down to the simple contact of the virus
with healthy animal. 1t is often car
ried On the clothes, boots and hands OF
men; on the fbres of hay or straw
t preserved on the walls, floors, managers
4 and other fittings of buildings; on sta
q bic utter sils; in yards, packs, roads
, and railroad cars; on drinking troughs
or it may be carried on the legs or bod
, les of dogs, chickens. rats and Other
, animals, while themselves escape the
inhiction. In short, any SOLID body
may retain and be bearer Of this con
, tagion.
It's transmission to man has been no.
ticed during almost every great out.
break since that Of 1895, 1t has been
reported, among others, by Valentine,
| Nadberny, Xeirtsky, Kolb. Hesturg,
Rayer, Bosunet, Loude, Sevigny, Dun
/ dressy, Hubner, Holmes, Baltour, Kar-
, kee, and Watson. Cases of the disease
: in man were seen in Albany aad at
South Dover, Duchess county, N. Y,
> during the outbreak OF 1870 1t shows
+ itself in man by slight feverishness,
a and the formation on the tongue and
inside the lips and cheeks, and some
times of the head, of small blisters,
rarely amounting to the bulk of fen
til. In children and young animals
: feeding exclusively on milk, dirrahna