Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-02
PLEuRo.PNEUMoNlA.
A Difference Of Opinion Between English and
American inspectors.

Washington. Nov. t-secroyary Rusk
says in regard to the lis .oycry " pleuro-
pneumonia by the British inspectors
among the mercan cattle lnnoed, In
London, that the lungs of the animal
had evidently been produced which were
affected with some lung disvnie. The
English inspectors claimed that the dis
ease was pleuro-pneumonil, while the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS sad 1t was catarrhal
pneumonia.
During the two years aud n quarter
that our inspectors have bteu 10 Great
Britain there have pcen about a half
dozen similar differen 'es Of opinion about
the nature of the lung lis'gsa found in
individual bullOcks. ii aratot IRE these
have always occurred in 'le winter and
spring months, when the anim Is were
subjected to exposure andy accounted
for the disease. In every cas- the ami
mails were traced back to tn faims or
which they We're fed. and 1t WIS proved
that no plcuro-pneumonia existed there
nor in any sections of country through
which they passed on their way to the
ship. Not having Oppo tupity to con
tract pleuro-pneumouid, II IL very Ger
tain that they We're not affected with that
disease.
There are some pc ul'ar Ci1cumstan-
ccs connected with the J'Scnyciy of the
recent case. 1t is the list ouu in year
that has been reported by the Britisl
inspectors during the summer or early
autumn months, season when GOO.
weather is usually encountered on tht
passage, And while l regras 10 sly any
thing rejecting upon ;he English inspec-
tors, i cannot overlook the fact that tli
case was reported soon after ,ly proca-
nation announcing the eradication OF
pluro-pneumonia from the United States
THE animal to which the lungs are
said to have belonged came from Ken
lucky, and there has not becn q case o.
| pleuro-pneumonia in that state during tn,
last six years, nor was there any oppol.
tunity for exposure during transportation
IhM disease has been thoroughly eradi-
Gated from the United States, and w,
know this because n instant Inspection
has been kept up In all the districts where
ii once existed, and inspectors have been
also sent to other portions at the cOuU-
try wherever cattle diseases lave oc.
cured, In addition to this We arc now In.
| specting over three million cattle ycnr
ut the time of slaughter, AMI IL such q
| disease existed anywhere IN this land we
would soon learn Of it through this in
| spection.
IF this was case Of contagious dis
| ease how does it happen that hut one ami
nal in the ship load was found affected
The animal alleged to have been affected
was in contact with others Of the same
shipment for week before leayin thu
| United States, they were nftpCn day.
in crossing, and this one at hast was moi
killed for a week after its arrival. Thi.
makes Il period Of twenty nine days thai
the animals We're together, which i,
amply sufficient for the development o,
the disease in some Of the other animals o
the shipment Still there was but on,
animal reported affected.
II have, therefore, the best Of reason,
for my confidence that 10 aletro pneumo
mia has been found affecting American
cattle, aud If the lungs which the cabl,
dispatches say have heen forwarded foi
our inspection are really effected witt
that disease, I am no less confident tina
they We're not taken from an American
bullock"