Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-10
GLANDERS.

GLANDERS.
 The commission have continued to exam
 inc, with the aid of competent veterinarians
 all suspected cases of glanders that have beer
 presented to their attention, and as the own
 CTS on receiving notification that their horses
 were glandered have promptly caused them
 to be killed according to law, with ons nota
 ble exception. 1t will be unnecessary tc enumerate these cases.
 The report gives at much length the de- tails of their labors in the case of horses suspected of glanders belonging to H. s. Merwin, of Durham. The commissioners had number of veterinary surgeons visit the horses, among them being Dr. Tibbals and Dr. OSullivan, of New Haven also Dr. Noah Cressy and many others, and conclud ing with the opinion of Dr. James Law, ot Cornell University that the horses were glandered, and the legal opinion of E. H. Hyde, jr., and others, which was in brief
 The State in effect by the enactment of chapter "
 fected with the glanders to be crime and fail to find in any subsequent act any intention on the part of the Legislature to annu1 modify the force ot that declaration.
 The commissioners found that the horses of MT. Merwin were glandered They had the infected horses quarantined, and MT. Merwin asked and obtained of the last Gen. eral Assembly $275 compensation for loss to him by the quarantining of his horses.
 
 bill, which was not accepted by MT. Merwin, which provided that the horses should be slaughtered and if found glandered the loss should be borne by Mir. Merwin but if not found glandered Mir Merwin should receive $65O from the State treasury. Henry G. Newton, of Durham, attorney for Mir. Mer- win, wrote July Is to the commissioners pro. posing that Mir. Merwin would furnish g horse for inoculation (for the glanders) and also furnish knife for inoculation, the horse to be inoculated by veterinary surgeon o1 the commissioners choice and to remain ir MT. Merwin's charge after inoculation. Tc this the commissioners dissented replying that they had already begun legal proceed ings. The commissioners had April 23 vis- tied Mir. Merwin's horses with Dr. A. H. Rose, of New Haven, who pronounced the to the selectmen of Durham. Virus was taken by the doctors from both mares anc with the matter from one mare he inoculateG horse in New Haven, which thereby con tracted the 'glanders. The commission ert close their report of the case saying: "This case shows the necessity of some l further legislation upon the subject w | have preferred to await the action of tht General Assembly rather than to urge the enforcement of the law against MT. Merwin "While we concur in the generally accepted l opinion that glandered horse is not only valueless but dangerous both to the owner and the community, and while we do no know of any country, State or municipality l where glandered horses are destroyed by law 1 in which the owner receives any compensation from the public treasury, yet we suggest that | in view of removing any appearance ot
 hardship inflicted by the destruction of pri ! vate property for the public good, and tht I more rapid and complete extinction of glan 1 ders, as so well set forth in the report of Dr. Law for 1880, that the General Assembly ] tion to the owners of horses which may bt
 declared affected with glanders by some es l tablished authority, and destroyed by them Let the horses in their diseased condition be appraised by competent persons, destroyed by some established authority, and part O. ! their appraised value be paid from the Statt i treasury"