The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-05
FLANDERS LOSS <. PUT AT S50,o0o
Deaths of 200 Horses Attributed to it and One Man Afflicted
 With the Malady

New Haven, Dec. 1.-The death of
 pr. James H. Kelley, one other case
 of human glanders, and the death of
 200 horses, valued at nearly $50,000,
 form the total of what New Haven has thus far paid for the epidemic of
 glanders among the horses here. And,
 according to the veterinarians of the city, interviewed last night, the epi-
 deInic is by no means under control.
 The closing of the public watering
 troughs has in a great measure stop ped the spread of it, but the disease
 had such start before any precau- tions were taken that it will be months and probably year before it is fully stamped out
 Even last week. several cases of the nlalady were reported from the big stables in the city and as a horse will sometimes carry the germs of the dis ease in his blood for months before it
 shows itself in any way, the veterin- arians are in Quandry as to just what the situation is. One thing they have determined on and that is that the public watering troughs should be kept closed for the greater part of the winter and as a matter of fact they
 believe that the present public water ing trough system is all wrong. They say that where there is danger of glan- ders-and there will be danger for a year or more nowhere should be no watering troughS where horses may drink of the same water in which other horses have put their noses.
 They believe that, instead, there should be a faucet with an automatic ar rangement for turning on the water and turning it off, so that driver could bring his pail to the trough, fill 1t and when he let's go of the faucet, system used in many of the Western cities where there is danger of epi- den1ics among horses.
 One of the big stables in New Ha- ven is reported to have lost nearly 50 horses from glanders since the epi-
 demic began, though there have been fewer deaths within the last month than before November 1. Some of
 the horses which have died were val uable animals, one stable losing three big draught horses valued at s350 apiece.
 The veterinarians of the city hope to have conference with H. O. Aver ill, the State commissioner, within a few days, at which the whole subject of precautions will be gone over. It will be proposed that system of rigid inspection be enforced in every stable in the city. AS it is now believed that
 many of the horses in the city are aI- ready affected, and as one horse might affect a dozen others in the same sta ble, it will be proposed that blood tests of the suspected animals be taken and sent to Prof. Conn of Wesleyan for analysis. If he reports that there is any glanders in the blood the horse can at once be isolated and the dan ger minimized.
 Another proposition to be made is that all animals which die of glanders be sent. to one rendering establishment instead of scattering them as is the present custom. In this way it would be possible to keep better track of the deaths by glanders.
 James Vincenco, an employe of one | of the rendering. establishments, who contracted g,anders while cutting up | a horse, is reported to be recovering. He was treated with hypodermic in | jections of the anti-glanders lymph,
 under the direction of pr. w. J. But i Ter, of the board of health