Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-02-26

New Outbreaks OF tine Diseasa--rhe
Success of Im0euHatfom

Success OF InoeuHatfon.
The spread OF oontsRious pleuro pueu-
monia In this county continues 10 euoh
an extent 90 to awaken the gresteB,
alarm among cattle owners. Stats Vsseri
marian Rowland has done an Invaluable
work toward combining the disease to the
herds at present under quarantine, and
his work has been to q great extent suc
oessful. The section now where the
greatest osute for alarm exists Ia near the
Pennsylvanis state line, where the
plague has appeared recently in
its usual malignant form. On
the farm tensntsd by Nicholas Garrett
~ Beaver Valley, near Grsnogue station,
W. & N. railroad, the oontagion has re-
GENTLY shown itself In large dairy Of
COWS. One Of the animals was taken
sick recently and died with
the plague. There are two or
three others affected badly while
several cases Of the oontagion In It's first
stages have shown Themselves. II will
probably be necessary TO slaughter some
Of the sick animals.
There are several other herds In the
immediate vicinity Of Mir. CARROTS prop
erty, among which the infection 10 be-
lieved to exist, and they are under the
quarantine laws Of Pennsylvania, being
lust inside the limits OF that state. At
southward, on the Baltimore & Phila-
delphia railroad, the plague exists in
large herd. The animals were inspected
by State Veterinarian Rowland day or
two since, but as the property 10 just
ACROSS the State line, he had NO jurisdic
tion in an ofaoial capacity, but notified
DR.. Bridge, the Pennsyl vsnia veterinarian.
ALI the infection existing in the lower
part Of Chester county, and the cases 81
9rancgue are traoesble directly TO this
city, whence 1t came from Baltimore.
Inooulstion resorted to by DR.. Rowland
with the best possible results In the herds
Of the Lobdell Car Wheel Company, and
Of the Rdge Moor Iron Company, will
be employed again IS the sgency TO COM
bat the disease in the Garrett dairy. II
may be cited that since the incubation
OF the COWS In the two diaries above re
terred TO no new cases have developed
and the ravsges OF the oonta
gion are believed to have been
checked In this direction, q.
lsast among the COWS on the
property. AS an illustration Of the
efficacy Of incubation and the contagious
nature Of the disease 1t Is re ported that
calves two weeks old In one OF the dairies
where the cows have been inooulated are
now suffering with the plague In its ad-
vanced stages. They were born after the
mothers had been inooulated and are the
only animals on the premises suffering
with the plague.
The Pennsylvania authorities have In
vestigatsd the incubation work OF Dr.
Rowland with view Of informing them
selves a. TO Its praoticability as . pre-
ventive measure, and are so we'll satisfied
at the results that they will treat herds
where the disease exists In the same way.
The cattle owners in the neighborhood
where the pleuro- pneumonis has broken
out are in much dread Of the disease
spreading very rapidly when the animals
are In pasture, ssgerms Of the disease are
carried by she sir or may readily be trans
mitted In she running streams from one
herd TO another.
The Lsaislature's stand In the matter
concerning the money TO be expended 81
inoidensals In fighting she disease Ii
viewed with considerable anxiety by the
dsirymen Of the county, least 1t PAralYzs
the work Of stamping out the infection.
The work already completed In this dirso-
ton illustrates the advantage OF having
competent men who, however, cannot BIT
expected to discharge their enerous
duties without adequate rscompense.