The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-01-28
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA, &c.
Report OF the Live Stock Sanitary Boart
TO the Governor.

Messrs. Alexander NJ Fulford, T. Alex
ander Seth and John Brady, commissioners,
have made their first report of the State
Live Stock Sanitary Board. The board
was created by an act of the legislature
passed in January, 1886, and started to
work May l following. The report is
dated December l last. They found an
unexpended balance of 1922 of the ap-
preparation of 1884. The cooperation of
the Bureau of Animal Industry in this
state was secured. Since the appoint
ment of this board, the animals destroyed
by the state on account of pleuro-pneumo-
MIA have been % diseased, at a cost of 1888;
exposed, 294, at cost of So, 255, making
total killed by each BIT, the total cost,
$3,643, and the average cost S11.49. Those
destroyed by the United States in the
same time were 1,476 diseased, at a cost
of s34, BOLT; exposed, 1,422, at cost of
S37 ,3U529, making a total of 1888, at
total cost of S72, JOY, and the average cost
S24.96.
The report says: When it became ap-
parent that animals quarantined would be
promptly appraised and slaughtered, at fair
valuation, the cattle owners ceased their
opposition to the enforcement of the law,
and became its warm supporters, with few
exceptions. Voluntary reports of the ex-
istence of the disease are made, and the
business of selling diseased animals for
human consumption has ceased.
Early III September, 1886, Dr. +. W.
Patterson was detailed to inquire into the
health of stock in the counties He made
investigations in all the counties of the
state, with the exception of Frederick,
Washington, Allegany and Garrett, and
collected facts concerning the condition of
the domestic animals of incalculable value.
No pleuro-pneumonia or traces thereof
were found in any of the counties of the
Eastern Shore-Worcester, Somerset, Wi
comico, Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline, Queen
Annes, Kent or Cecil; but the disease has
recently existed in Lancaster county, Pa,
near the Cecil line. Nor was the disease
found in Calvert, ST. Mary.s, Charles,
Montgomery or Hartford, though few
cases were found in Hartford shortly before
the appointment of this board, which were
slaughtered by Dr. Robert Ward, state
veterinary inspector.
The location of pleuro- pneumonia in the
state, so far as found, has been in the
city of Baltimore; in the county of Baltimore
in the First. Third, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth.
Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth election
districts; in Anne Arundel, near Annapo-
lis, at Rhode and South rivers and near
Brooklyn; in Prince Georges county, near
the District of Columbia; Howard county,
at Hoods Mills, and in Carroll county at
Smallwood and Bird Hill.
The dairymen have approved of our
work, and it has not been necessary to en-
force any of the penal sections of the act.
tuberculosis among cattle was found in
greater or less extent in all the counties of
the state. The board slaughtered thirty.
four diseased animals, valued at $3.50.
This board is satisfied that the milk from
hundreds of such cattle, as well as the
flesh thereof, is annually sold and consum-
ed in the state, particularly in the city of
Baltimore, causing much disease among
the human family.
Few cases of CHAMBERS were found, but
in the last six or eight months there has
been an increase traceable to Washington,
Twenty-Five horses, appraised at s522.50,
we're killed. Two animals in Cecil suffer-
ing from catarrhal fever we're killed. The
swine plague has caused direct annual
loss, accordingly to DR.. Patterson's figures,
Of 100000. The loss estimated in the
counties is: Somerset, $4,000; Worcester.
81, $50; Wicomico, 81, 300; Dorchester.
s39, $50; Talbot, s36,579; Caroline Gone
district only, $4,000; Queen Anne's s4l,
995; Kent, s59, 1856; Cecil, $1,000; Har-
ford, $4,000; Anne Arundel, S54.c41;
Calvert, s19.s62; St. hlary's, $685.;