The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-19
Pleuro = Pneumonia in the Eastern
States.

States.
Fr0t. Noah CTessy of Amherst,
Mass, in company with Hon. E. H.
Hyde of Stafford, Conn, chairman of
the Connecticut health commission,
and Secretary Gold of the Connecticut
board of agriculture, recently made an
investigation of the dreadful pleuro-
pneumonia among the cattle of Green
witch, Fairfield county, Conn, on the
New York line, and it appears from
from his report and those of other ext
perts that there lisa good deal of the
disease within Il limited area of Con-
necticut and New York. solomon S.
Mead, of Greenwich, has lost five COWS
and two calves from the disease. He
bought a calf in New York city Sep
TENDER LIST, and it was dead the Doth of
that month. His first cow died No
vember 9Th, the second month after,
and the other three before the middle
of last March. He has had 10 cattle
that have been more or less affected.
On the farm of Daniel NJ. Grifiins, adj
joining Mead's two cattle have died,
and another animal, taken down a
fortnight before was dying, while nine
teen cows were affected with the mala-
dy. Abraham Reynolds, in the same
town, has lost four cows, and has a
large herd exposed, several of the ami
mails showing pronounced symptoms of
the malady.
The great sources of infection are
Westminster county, N. Y, and New
York City and vicinity. There are
several infected herds in Bedford and
other Westminster towns. In New
York State the authorities have power
to slaughter herds of cattle in which
the disease exists, paying for such ami
mails as are found not to be diseased.
In Connecticut quarantining is the only
resort, and several herds have been
placed in quarantine. There is evil
dence that the disease is likely to break
out in herd where it has once existed,
after a considerable period of immu-
nifty; for insta nee, Reynolds got some
cows from Bedford, N. y, five years
ago, and lost many from this disease.
He has had no trouble from it for three
years until recently, when it broke out
with considerable virulence.
Prof. Cressy and ex-Gov. Hyde called
upon Gen. Patrick and Prof. James
Law, inspector for the board of health
in New York city, and all agreed as tc
the nature of the disease among the
cattle above mentioned, and the meas
ures necessary for preventing the spread
of the c%ontagion.
In this connection we would call at
~tention TO the remarkable statement
recently made by. Prof. Williams of the
veterinary college, Edinburgh, that
there is no pleuro-pneumonia in Amer
lea. Prof. Williams was called upon to
examine a large number of cattle sent
to Edinburgh from Chicago, many Of
which were affected with sore throat OIL
lung disease. He states that he hat
seen over a hundred of the slaughtered
cattle, and examined the diseased ones
Although in a few there were signs oil
pneumonia, yet in his opinion the dis
ease with which these cattle were suf
fering was rather capillary bronchitis
induced by exposure during the voyage
The cattle, he said, had undoubtedly
been subjected to some severe cause o.
causes of that disease, and that thu
disease was not contracted by conta
gion while in America. This opinion
does not conflict at all with that O.
Prof. Cressy and others inthis c%ountr,
for they had no opportunity to examine
the cattle referred to by Prof. Williams
But when the latter makes the sweep
ing inference that there is no pieuro
pneumonia in America, this opinion
can have very little weight as compar.
ed with the statements of competent
veterinary surgeons in this c%ountr.
who have had access to the facts, ant
who have made the subject a careful
study. Although doctors disagree
very frequently, yet our American doc
tors with great unanimity pronounc,
the same diagnosis of the dreaded
plague which has many times brok
en- out among our cattle, and there il
no reason for doubling their statements
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