The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-10
CONCERNING CHAMBERS.

Precautions Necessary to Prevent tho Spread
of That Infectious characterization Of
the Pest.
RED WING, July Ito the Editor: You
will confer favor upon the owners of horses
and mules, and other people as well, by the
publication of the enclosed article on
CHAMBERS. The disease exists In several
places In the state, and as it is communica-
BILE to man and infectious to other animals,
it is nuisance which it liz the duty Of local
boards OF health to deal with and suppress
As usual in contagious disease, much igno-
rance and Indifference exist on the subject
among those most interested. Local boards
OF health, under the instruction of the
state board, are moving, to quarantine and
control the cases brought to their knowl-
edge, but have not as yet gotten full direc-
tion of the matter. 1t is need ess to write
you that this is a very serious matter to all
our people. The enclosed article briefly
sums up our present knowledge of the dis
ease, its varieties and their control VAL
liable horses have within few weeks been
shot for this cause in our state. whose loss
owners, with the knowledge given in this
paper, might have prevented. Look out for
all suspicious cases and quarantine them till
all doubt is passed, is the golden rule in the
matter. which closely followed will render
any wide spread OF OF this disease impossible.
CHARLES n HEWITT,
Secretary State Board OF Health.
CHAMBERS AND FARCY.
The following summary of the facts Of gland
ers is, by authority Of the state board Of
health, furnished for popular information. The
occasion, at this time, is the existence Of the
disease In few places in the state, and, there
fore, the necessity that horse owners particu-
larry should be put upon their guard. and be
asked to cooperate with the local and state
boards Of health in the suppression of the dis
ease More detailed instructions and informa-
ton have been issued by the state board Of
health to local boards Of health, which will be
furnished to any one asking for them by the
secretary at Red Wing The disease occurs un:
der two common forms, nasal CHAMBERS and
f.,cy: sometimes also an affection of the
deeper air passages and the lungs. So far ~
observed, the present cases are Of the first two
varieties. and the majority of the first of them
In either form the disease is contagious to other
animals and to man, though chiefly confined to
horses and mules.
As an infectious disease It renders its victims
therefore, directly under the control of tho state
and local boards of health. When we'll estab-
lished either form is fatal to horses, mules, and
other animals, and to man. The usual location
OF tho disease, and therefore the place to look
for its first invasion, Is the cavity of the nose
About this locality there are in the vast majority
which any intelligent observer may Judge Of the
probable. II not the certain presence of the dis
ease; First. discharges from one or both nos
tr1ls Of. first glairy and then ycllowish and ad-
hesive matter Second, hard Jumps like split peas
IN the lining membrane of the nose, followed BY
irregular and hardened sores or ulcers chiefly In
the partition between the nostrils. Third, A
distinct, well defined and hard gland under the
| Jaw, on one or both sides, first movable. then
hxed, rarely tender except at first, and rarely
| going on to break down into matter. All these
present In horse or mule, and the case is clearly
glanders The visoid, yellow matter and tho
open and chronic sores are enough land they
rarely exist without the cnlarg0l Gland as their
oQassouenoe) to tuattfy crave suspicion and