Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-09
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.
The Lung Plague in Missouri and
Measures For It's Eradication.

The Asylum Herd at Fulton Killed-A Prl
vate Herd Also sacrificed-Historyo of
the Disease-Suggestions by
Governor Marmaduke.
| JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, April 3.-Gover
| nor Marmaduke, Colonel Robert McCul
loch, Register of Lands, and D. r. E
| Young, of this city, accompanied by DR.
NJ. X. Trumbower, United States Veterin
airy Inspector of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry, returned from Fulton last night
| where they went to attend the meeting O
| the cattlemen of the State, held March
| 31st, the object of which was to take such
| measures as will lead to the exter minatoI
| and eradication of the disease known a:
| contagious pleuro-pneumonia, or 'lune
| plague" which appeared among the hero
| at the State Lunatic Asylum about si1
| weeks ago.
DR.. Trumbower, whose home is in Ster-
| ling, ILL.,, who spent several weeks in Full
| ton investigating the nature and extent oil
| the disease, is the guest of the Governor
who invited him to come here in order that
| he might consult with him regarding the
| best plan to be pursued to prevent the
spread of the disease among the cattle of
the State.
INTERVIEWING DR. TRUMBowER-
Calling at the Mansion to-day, your
correspondent was introduced to DR.. Trum-
bower, who expressed willingness to be
interviewed upon the subject which
brough him to Missouri and to Fulton.
His statement is, in substance, as follows:
Ireceived telegram from Commissioners
Lorng, February 18th Twas Vas, then 1a at oaar tx
ouested me to go to Fulton and examine the
herd of cattle at the Lunatic Asylum, Which
was supposed to be infected with some con
tagious disease. After my arrival at Fulton,
/ called at the Lunatic Asylum, saw Ut;
Smith, the superintendent, ana o e itt
break of the disease He said the first
animal noticed to be affected was aDoue
January 10Th: Two aiea Tb 5ev' hai been
Sick four or five days. few
DAYS later another animal was noticed 10 De
ailing; it breathed heavy; had cough
wouidn't lie down. \ few days before 1t dled
its breathing became painful ana Injurious t
and each expiration was accompanleu py a
roinfuI moaning. 1t died about FEBRUARY 81
lis chest was cut open and examined by Dr..
Tichenor one of the assistant physicians OF
the asylum. He found one i9nS aeiy nnni
monty known as hepatiZation, anu co 0i
able fluid was in the chest cavities: me eA-
aminatiOns evidently proved thao TINS was q
case OF some severe lung trouble, athouSh
the true nature OF the disease was not kno " H.
y few days later two more COWS "Gi VEL, an" 80
also cut open. The lung OF one was ioulio
in a state of gangrene and immensely swol 9
len. seven mead died during the montn OF
February beside the two above mentioned,
which die in January OF dlarrhea. lnese
two believe, We're affected Win inc saItie
disease, but septic poison SettliS III oiouSiiS
on the black diarrhea.
TWO TYPICAL CASES.
On March I'd made my first examination
and discovered two cases OF acute pie uro-
pneumonia in the stable containing the
mich cows, about forty five in number. One
OF these cases registered temperature OF
I05.S deg. and emitted that painful moan or
grunt at each breath which is peculiar to the
acute type of this disease.
Another case registered q temperature OF
I041s deg. Breathing was quick and labored.
She refused to eat her feed that morning for
the first time On dlteet ex aane eot
dation of one lung, the effusions OF serum
into the chest cavity and attachment OF az
fected lung to rio. The one showing TINS eA-
treme temperature was killed by me on the
4th OF March for exam nation Upon open,
ing the chest one whole lung was FOUND
en- orned with blood and an effuslon OF serum
or lymph into the spaces dlVldlnS the GO
bules of the lung from each other. three
distinct stages of the disease were mani
tested in this lung. One portion OIL It, evil
IDENTIFY having been affected lor month or
six weeks, was characterized by
the organization of fiber in the ly:nph spaces,
and the hemorrhagic infraction being just at
the point of death or necrosis, and being In
capsulatcd. This animal showed all the pos
tive characteristic conditions of true conta-
gious pleuro pneumonia or lung plague of
cattle. The disease i'll this animal manifest
ed all the violence found i'll European cOun.
tries where the plague has been prevailing.
KILLING INFECTED ANIMALS.
On March 9th killed the other one, which
had gradually become worse since the first
examination, and also killed one at the same
time which l considered to be an old chronic
presence of the Asylum Board of Physicians
and in the presence of the Board of Managers
town, and a number of other persons who
were invited to witness the examination.
Many of these gentlemen were very skeptl-
cal about believing that this disease was
cont agious pleuro pneumonia. but at the end
of the examination all, without any excep-
tons were thoroughly convinced that these
cattle had been subjected to a malignant form
of lung disease with which they were entirely
unacauainted, and they had no reason to
doubt any longer that this was the lung
plague The next examination was made
before the investigating committee sent by
the Legislature, on the 10th of March. TWO
of the five members of the committee were
physicians l demonstrated to that commit
tee the true nature of the disease to their
own satisfaction, and they reported to the
Ieaislature accordingly, with the request
that some action should be Immediately
taken to stamp out TINS plague.
THE STATE HERD ORDERED KILLED.
The next examination was made before the
new Board of Managers of the asylum. This
board contains four physicians from various
portions of the State: 1 killed two animals
showed two typical or well-tormed cases of
this disease. This board were well salts
tie of the nature Of the disease Sc and appre,
extent that they passed a resolution author
izing the Superintendent of the Asylum to
kill the whole infected herd, with the provi-
So however, that they desired first to con-
suit the Attorney General of the State in or
der to learn whether or not they had the au-
.iart n III
BY this time the citizens of Fulton and
surrounding country became cam greatly
extinction of the infected herd for fear that
this dread disease would soon spread the
country and into the neighbor-
ing herds.
THE NEWS REACHES KANSAS.
About this time the report of the disease
among the asylum herd having reached
Kansas, the Live Stock Commissioners of
that State, who were then about to make up
their quarantine list, requested DR.. A. A.
Holcolnb, the Live Stock Sanitary Comm's g.
sioner. to go to Kansas City and make in.
uuiries regarding the nature and extent OF
the disease The stock men ignored the re-
ports from Fulton, and were loud in their
isted at Fulton, but that it was simply a
scare created by the Bureau of Animal In
dus ry for selfish purpose. They beneved
if any disease existed among the cattle at
Fulton 1t was only tuberculosis Or consump-
ton. He urged upon them the necessity of
making strict examination of the matter,
as it was necessary that they should
know the exact nature of the disease
Without any guessing about IT.
sas would have to adopt measures to protect
her own interests, and quarantine against
Missouri. This aiaI med the Kansas City
stockmen who declared that neither Kansas
City nor the State OF Missouri could afford to
have such action taken against them. On
the following day Captain j. Ill. Payne, 4. b.
of Kansas City, and G. NJ. Lack
Ian 4, of Mexico, MO, accompanied by three
Doctors Adair, DundaS and |
kansas FnitOn