REPORT 
ON 
PLEURQ-PNEUMQNIA AMONG CARE 
IN THE 
STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 
Proceedings under “AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OP CONTAGIOUS OR 
INFECTIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE IN THE 
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,” Approved March 13,1879. 
1879. 
TRENTON, N. J.: 
Wm. S. Sharp, Printer and Stereotyper. 
i 879- REPORT. 
Office for the Prevention of the Spread op Con- 4 
TAGIOUS PIEURO-PnEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE, V 
249 Washington Street, Jersey Oily, December 15, 1879. j 
To His Excellency George B. McClellan, Governor of the State of New 
Jersey: 
Sir—l have the honor to submit the following report of work done 
in carrying out the act of assembly entitled “An act to prevent the 
spread of contagious or infectious pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in 
this state.” 
As your assistant and agent, which appointment your Excellency 
was pleased to honor me with, I commenced operations at Trenton on 
March 15th, 1879, and in order to determine the extent and location 
of the disease, I caused circulars to be addressed to the assessors of each 
township, to the postmasters, and to farmers of prominence through- 
out the State, requesting such information as they could give of disease 
existing in their immediate localities. From the answers returned 
there could be no question as to the necessity of taking prompt action 
in the premises. 
On April 2d, 1879, I found it necessary to move the headquarters 
to Jersey City, and established them at No. 249 Washington street, in 
order to meet the requirements of moving stock to and from the State 
of New York, from whence the dairymen draw largely their supples 
of fresh milch cows, and the largest bulk of cattle are crossed both 
ways at this point. I found it therefore necessary to remain at this 
place. 
On the 17th of March I ordered Dr. Corlies to inspect the abattoir 
at Jersey City; and on the 24th of March Dr. Holcombe reported to 
me at Trenton, and was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief. Four other 
veterinarians were appointed, and, on April Ist, regular inspections of 
the herds in Bergen and Hudson counties were commenced. The said 
counties were quarantined, so that proper restrictions might be placed 
upon the movements of cattle without permits. All the ferries and 
boats bringing stock into New Jersey, on the eastern border were for- 
bidden to land any stock unless accompanied with a permit issued 
by General M. R. Patrick, of the New York State Commission, 4 
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who had issued similar orders relative to the landing of stock in New 
York, thus controlling the carrying of stock between the States. 
The inspections through Bergen county developed the fact that the 
majority of the farmers raise their own stock ; and as few purchases or 
sales are made, their immunity from a wide spread of the disease is 
clearly attributable to that fact. 
On March 25th Dr. Holcombe was instructed to proceed to Leonia 
and Fairvrew, and make reports to this office of the condition of the 
cattle there found affected with the disease. His actions there had a 
tendency to make complications between the State and municipal 
authorities, and I found it necessary to order him by telegraph to re- 
port to me, with a view of relieving him from duty, which he antici- 
pated by tendering his resignation, and it was accepted on April 25th. 
The staff was reorganized with Dr. J. C. Corlies as surgeon-in-chief, 
since which time the work has been harmoniously and satisfactorily 
done; and no difficulties have occurred with the farmers, but, on the 
contrary, their aid has voluntarily been given towards the suppression 
of the disease. 
The reception of numerous reports of disease, from the western and 
southwestern parts of the State, had occasioned much alarm. From 
investigations made, I became convinced that the disease was being 
introduced from Pennsylvania. On July 12th, 1879,1 communicated 
with Mr. Thomas J. Edge, Secretary of the Agricultural Society of 
Pennsylvania, as to the existence of the disease in that State, and re- 
ceived additional proof that such was the case. Pennsylvania had 
passed a law, similar to New York and New Jersey, for the preven- 
tion and suppression of the disease, but showed no disposition to en- 
force the same; therefore I was thrown upon my own resources, and 
it became necessary to take decided measures to guard the crossings 
from Pennsylvania, to protect the farmers from receiving diseased 
stock. On August 2d, 1879, Mr. J. W. Allen was given written in- 
structions and dispatched to Camden, for the purpose of consummating 
arrangements with the different ferries plying between Philadelphia 
and the different ports of entry between Salem and Phillipsburg, as to 
the carrying of stock from Pennsylvania, and the examination of the 
same on their arrival in this State. He was successful in gaining the 
co-operation of the ferry companies, and they caused to be built, on 
this side of their ferries, pens to hold all cattle crossing from Penn- 
sylvania until after an examination had been made by an inspector 
from this office. 
I am pleased to say that the Pensylvania, Central of New Jersey 
and other railroads have cordially assisted the operations of the Bureau 
when required; they have also required their freight agents to trans- 
port no stock unless accompanied by a certificate of inspection from this 
office; thus all avenues of ingress were controlled as far as practicable, 
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or raisers of stock in this State to the history, symptoms and danger 
of this dire malady, and that it may be the means of rendering the 
public a service of greatest importance. 
By eminent authorities we are informed that pleuro-pneuraonia first 
appeared in Germany about the middle of the eighteenth century, 
although others date the disease back to 1693, when a large number 
of cattle were destroyed by it in some of the provinces of Germany. 
In 1743 it invaded the canton of Zurich; thirty-five years later it 
prevailed most alarmingly in Upper Silesia for six years, and then ex- 
tended to different parts of Germany. In 1827 it attacked cattle in 
Piedmont and Belgium, and in 1832 invaded Holland, continuing 
with unabated force for several years; in 1837 it destroyed over seven 
thousand head of cattle in south Holland. In 1840 it reached Great 
Britain, since which time it has spread extensively ; it has been alleged 
that the malady was introduced in Great Britain from Holland by 
some Dutch cows imported by a friend of the English consul at one 
of the Dutch ports, to improve the milking qualities of the native 
breed in south Ireland. The disease having established itself in Cork, 
soon spread to other parts of Ireland, passing into' London in 1842, 
thence to midland, western and northern counties, and thence to Scot- 
land, which it reached in 1843. In these cases the outbreaks were 
clearly traceable to Irish cattle. 
In 1854 the disease was found in Australia, where it rapidly spread; 
and, notwithstanding the measures adopted by the legislature, in apply- 
ing certain restrictive provisions to arrest its progress, the malady con- 
tinued to spread. 
The disease, according to some authorities, was introduced into New 
Jersey in 1847 from England by a farmer, a Mr. Thomas Richardson, 
he, having imported or purchased imported stock, found the disease 
amongst them, and before other herds became infected he destroyed 
his whole herd of imported cattle, at a loss of SIO,OOO, setting an 
honorable example worthy of emulation and deserving of the grati- 
tude of his countrymen. Too much praise cannot be given for such 
a noble act, and it is to be hoped that the example thus set will 
in some measure inspire others to imitate the course then pursued, 
or at least cause them to submit with equanimity to the enactments of 
legislation and the laws made for their own protection in extirpating 
the fatal malady. 
In 1859 the disease reached Massachusetts from Holland, through 
four cows imported by Mr. Chenery, neai* Boston. An act was passed 
by legislation, appointing a commission with authority to take such 
action as would be likely to extirpate the disease. They were author- 
ized to destroy all animals diseased or which had belonged to diseased 
herds, and disinfect the premises, and to appraise or certify to the State 
government the allowance made for animals destroyed. It was also 
■enacted, u That any person who should knowingly disregard any law- 6 
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ful order or direction of said commission, or who should sell or other- 
wise dispose of an animal which he knows or has reason to suspect 
has been exposed to the disease, should forfeit a sura not exceeding 
five hundred dollars.” 
e The legislature appropriated $lO,OOO for expenses of the commis- 
sion. The commissioners destroyed eight hundred and forty-two 
animals, at a cost of $20,432. The disease continuing to spread, sub- 
scriptions to the amount of $20,000 were made and the work of the 
commissioners continued for five and a half years in all before the 
disease was extirpated, and at a total loss to the State of Massachusetts 
of at least $250,000. 
It may startle some of our neighbors of Pennsylvania to learn that 
the disease exists among them. And we have every reason to believe,, 
in the absence of proper preventive measures and watchfulness, there 
is a danger of a wide-spread visitation of the disease on our western 
border, requiring a careful vigilance and rigid quarantine to be kept. 
When we consider the number of cattle in this State, and estimate 
their value, the importance of this subject will be apparent. The 
number of cattle in this State, January Ist, 1879, was 236,700, valued 
at $7,828,922. 
With a knowledge of the past history of the disease in other 
countries as well as in this, and the difficulty of eradicating it, as well 
as legislative enactments and precautionary measures hitherto adopted 
elsewhere, having in view its prevention, a grave responsibility will 
attach to those in power if, after past experiences, the disease be allowed 
to obtain a foothold, destroying our best stock, checking one of the 
great interests of this State and entailing a loss appalling to contem- 
plate, and affecting indirectly many other interests. 
The following is a brief summary of the results of the year: 
The number of cattle found sick with the disease has been 572, 
and 2663 herds, containing 40,309 cattle, have been inspected. 
Many cattle were placed in quarantine on account of showing sus- 
picious symptons, and were held until the incubative period had 
passed, being carefully watched during the meantime; when no fur- 
ther sickness than bronchial trouble being manifested the order of 
quarantine was removed. 
The number of cattle found necessary to destroy in order to prevent 
the spread of the disease has been 315, at an average cost of $11.85 
per head. 
There are in quarantine 99 herds, containing 865 cattle, of which 
number 257 are condemned as suffering with contagious pleuro- 
pneumonia. 
The total expenses will aggregate in the neighborhood of $19,000. 
The report of Dr. J. C. Corlies, Veterinary Surgeon-in-Chief, 
hereunto annexed, gives in. detail the work done by the veterinary 
surgeons. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
WM. H. STERLING. REPORT OF SURGEON-IN-CHIEF. 
249 Washington St., Jeesey City, December 15, 1879. 
To General Wm. TI. Sterling: 
Sie—ln compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to 
submit my report of the details and operations under my charge as 
Veterinary Surgeon-in-chief of the Bureau. 
I found it necessary to organize a staff of six qualified veterinarians 
to assist in carrying out the provisions of the law entitled “An act to 
prevent the spread of epizootic, contagious pleuro pneumonia among 
cattle in New Jersey,” (see Chapter 89 of the laws of the State of New 
Jersey, approved March 13th, 1879.) Much work having been done 
in Bergen county, and no disease having been found to exist, and re- 
ports having been received at the office that the disease was in Hudson 
county, the inspectors were assigned to work there. Every herd has 
been successfully examined, and when the disease has been found the 
animals have either been destroyed, or the stables quarantined and the 
stock carefully watched. The dairymen had been in the habit of 
pasturing their stock indiscriminately on the public commons. This 
being a source of spreading the disease, it became necessary to take 
some steps to control it. With that object in view, the police commis- 
sioners of Jersey City were consulted, and they caused an order to be 
issued, September Ist, prohibiting the driving of all cattle through the 
streets unless accompanied by a permit issued from this office. 
On July 7th it became necessary to quarantine Essex county, to 
facilitate inspections, which, when completed, showed as a result that 
the stock was, with a few exceptions, healthy. The other counties 
have only been inspected in localities where the disease was reported to 
exist, and the herds in the immediate neighborhood have been ex- 
amined to ascertain the extent of the spread of the malady. 
Having been made aware of the existence of the disease in Pennsyl- 
vania, and arrangements having been perfected, four veterinarians 
were dispatched to the western frontier of the State—one to be stationed 
at Bull’s Island and one at Trenton, there to examine all cattle arriv- 
ing between Camden and Phillipsburg; and two at Camden, to ex- 
amine all stock arriving between that point and Salem, with instructions 
to return all stock found infected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 8 
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On August 18th regular examinations were commenced on that 
border, and results obtained have shown the necessity of the measures 
taken. Four months’ inspections have discovered sixteen lots of dis- 
eased cattle containing 217 head, 40 of which were found infected 
with contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and with the rest sent back to 
Philadelphia. These are only the positive results obtained ; the far- 
mers have been greatly benefited by receiving a much better grade of 
cattle than heretofore, as the dealers buy only healthy stock, knowing 
by experience that it would be useless to attempt to pass any other 
kind. 
HOW THE WORK IS BEING DONE. 
Finding a strong feeling of antipathy existing among the people 
against the introduction of radical measures, and with a view of obvi- 
ating that feeling, the inspectors were instructed to exercise discretion 
and extend courtesy toward those with whom they come in contact 
while in discharge of their duties, and to report all interference on the 
part of the people to this office, where the case would receive due con- 
sideration ; this course, I am happy to say, has been productive of the 
best results as far as removing all feeling of opposition, and inducing 
all owners of cattle to look upon the inspectors as a source of protec- 
tion. 
THE METHOD OF MAKING INSPECTIONS. 
In order to facilitate the work, a detective who is thoroughly ac- 
quainted with the city, precedes the inspectors locating the stables, 
number of cattle, &c., which he reports to this office; the inspectors 
are then provided with lists of the same, with printed orders of quar- 
antine, and instructed to proceed to the places, make a careful exami- 
nation, and if any diseased animals are found, to mark them by clip- 
ping the hair from the right gluteal region forming the letters P P, 
with a cross cut through the skin between with a sharp scalpel, while 
those standing contiguous to, or having been in contact with them, 
being thereby rendered liable to develop the malady, are simply 
marked with the letters and isolated to await further developments. 
The stable is then quarantined by placing a printed order on the 
building, and at the close of the day’s labor, the inspectors return to 
the office, where, upon printed forms, a report of the number, location 
and condition of each herd is made, which is placed upon file for 
further reference. As soon as compatible, we then proceed to the in- 
fected herd, make a careful reinspection, and determine what should 
be done under the circumstances. The owner being first consulted by 
stating to him the case with its probable results, and if it is necessary 
to kill in order to prevent the spread of the malady, he is so informed 
and the animals are taken out, destroyed, their hides slashed, and the 
carcasses, if in the city limits, carted away by the offal contractor; if REPORT GIST PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
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not, they are buried. The remaining animals, though showing no 
diseased condition, are looked upon with suspicion from having been 
in contact with the infection, and when in proper condition are sent to 
the butcher, where they are slaughtered under the supervision of an 
inspector. In some instances where the animals are in a safe locality 
so that there is no danger of the disease spreading, though having 
passed through a slight attack of the malady, but evidently making 
a rapid recovery, it is considered prudent to keep them in quarantine 
until they can be fitted for the butcher, and the flesh utilized for 
human consumption; after the manure, litter and all materials having 
a tendency to retain infection have been removed from the stable, it is 
then thoroughly disinfected, and after, ninety days, if the owner is 
desirous, the quarantine is removed and new cattle allowed on the 
premises. 
DEALERS. 
One of the worst difficulties we have been called upon to overcome 
is the dealer, a sharp, shrewd, unprincipled person, who studies to 
take advantage of the dairyman, and even the Bureau, whenever the 
opportunity presents itself. His favorite method is to go to a stable 
where diseased animals are known to be kept, procure one in the early 
stages of the malady, take it to a healthy herd where its presence will 
soon occasion an outbreak, when he will stand ready to purchase the 
diseased animals at his own price and put them upon the market to be 
used for beef. Investigations have shown that such a course has been 
productive of a great deal of trouble, and we have considered it neces- 
sary to restrict them in their manner of dealing, in order to arrest the 
spread of the malady ; with that object in view we have introduced a 
system of granting permits. 
PERMITS. 
Requesting all those desirous of moving cattle to call at this office, 
where they are required to give their name, number or residence, num- 
ber of cattle and where they wish to take them. If, upon consulting 
our books, the person does not appear as having cattle that have been 
previously inspected, an inspector is directed to the place, who makes 
an examination, and if the animals are free from infection as well as 
the place where they are destined to go, a printed form of permit is 
granted from this office allowing their removal. By this means they 
may be traced at any time, and any effort on the part of the dealer to 
traffic in unhealthy animals is prevented. This course proves a posi- 
tive protection to the purchaser, as well as requiring the dealer to 
traffic only in healthy stock, and secure him a good reputation, how- 
ever much he may desire otherwise. All cattle leaving infected places 
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only to places of slaughter, where, under the supervision of an inspec- 
tor, they are destroyed and a proper disposition made of the carcasses. 
RE-INSPECTIONS. 
When cattle have assumed a risk but not actually presenting symp- 
toms of the malady, and while awaiting its incubation, it has always 
been the custom in this, as well as in European countries, to practice 
occision; but, believing that proceeding to be an expensive experi- 
ment, we have adopted the rule of allowing the animals to remain in 
provisional quarantine, and from time to time make re-inspections, by 
which means we are able to keep the stable under surveillance during the 
incubative period, when, if the disease does not appear, the quarantine 
is raised and the stock declared healthy. This manner of proceeding, 
being a departure from the rule adopted in European countries, is 
looked upon with disfavor by foreign veterinarians, notwithstanding 
experience has taught us that it has been productive of a great saving 
to this State. 
Several stables, containing a number of cattle, were quarantined 
during the opening months in consequence of finding one or more 
diseased animals in them, which .were removed and destroyed, and the 
stables subjected to an occasional re-inspection until six months had 
elapsed, when, no further disease being manifested, the quarantine 
was raised and the premises declared free from all contagious disease. 
After carefully computing the cost of conducting these re-inspections 
and comparing it with the necessary expenses following the destruction 
of the cattle, there is a handsome balance in favor of the former 
method. 
MISTAKEN THEORIES. 
Nine months have elapsed, and constant intercourse during that time 
with epizootic contagious pleuro-pneumonia has established the fact 
that many erroneous ideas have been allowed to creep into the minds 
of the people in regard to the nature, character, means of prevention, 
&c., of the malady, and foremost amongst these is. 
INOCULATION. 
A so-called preventive means of avoiding the spread of the malady 
is practiced with varying success. The following are the views of two 
eminent authorities on the subject. Professor Gaintard, Dean of the 
American Veterinary College, says : 
“The prophylaxis of inoculation, efficient as it may be in an 
epizootic outbreak, certainly has no claims for adoption in connection 
with the disease as it now exists, for it would only prove one of the 
surest methods of spreading the malady, while our aim should be to REPORT ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
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confine it to its present quarters, and then eradicate it at whatever cost 
the method may entail.” 
Referring to the subject, Clater says : “ Inoculation has been prac- 
ticed with questionable success. Experiments professing to be for the 
object of testing the efficacy of direct inoculation for pleuro-pneu- 
monia have been recommended and practiced with great looseness. 
The peculiar subtle character of a contagious disease is not sufficiently 
weighed with care; it is a very general practice to recommend and 
adopt the remedy after an animal has succumbed to the affection. We 
contend, therefore, that inoculation in such cases is no test of efficacy,, 
as, with the existence of pleuro-pneumonia upon the farm, no one can 
arrive at a safe conclusion whether the consequence of the malady has 
really resulted from a direct cause or from the artificial means em- 
ployed. All the profitable terminations of pleuro-pneumonia have 
been witnessed equally with its unmolested march through a herd, 
equally with inoculation, lienee our disbelief in the sufficiency of the 
evidence at present before us.” 
The results of investigations are so conflicting, indefinite and at 
variance with seeming facts, that it is not by any means established 
that any degree of success has ever been obtained by its use; there is 
not a single instance, so far as we have been able to learn, where it 
has been resorted to until after the malady had actually attacked a 
herd, when more or less of its number might reasonably be supposed 
to have assumed a risk. Now, since all authorities are agreed to the 
fact that its incubative period ranges all the way from ten to ninety 
days, we cannot see how its application could affect an animal when 
applied at about the time it should be assuming an accute character, 
unless we can go a step further and claim for it a curative effect. In 
the face of the fact that the malady often exhausts itself with attacking 
but one or two animals out of a herd of many, and the rest enjoying im- 
munity, also that the disease often breaks out in the same herd after in- 
oculation has been performed, as well as the negative results following 
tts use in England, Belgium and Australia, and other countries, where 
the disease has existed for a long time, we think there is but liltte 
doubt, notwithstanding it has a few advocates, that it has thus far 
proved inert to accomplish the desired result, and that we must look 
elsewhere for a more substantial means of eradicating the disease. 
Careful investigations recently prosecuted from this office induce us 
to fully coincide in the above view of the subject. 
In this month’s issue of the Veterinary Journal, Mr. George Flem- 
ing, in an editorial, takes strong ground in favor of the treatment 
which he bases upon the result of experiments conducted at Edinburgh, 
Scotland, by a Mr. Rutherford, recently from Australia; he also 
claims advantages following its application there, which are at vari- 
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obtain information as to how it is received there, and find it is looked 
upon with a good deal of disfavor. 
We also know that notwithstanding it has been practiced for a 
number of years, the country is still overrun by the malady. Sup- 
pose its introduction did confer immunity, we believe it would still be 
impracticable, owing to its cost; we have in this State 236,000 head 
of cattle, all of which it would be absolutely necessary to inoculate to 
use this method, and when we consider the time required to reach the 
herd, and consumed in introducing the virus, with the cost of the 
necessarily diseased animals which have to be destroyed in order to 
obtain a supply of virus, we may safely compute it at 50 cents per 
head, establishing a first cost to either the State or the individual far- 
mer of not less than $118,000; besides it would be necessary for the 
first few years to treat the offspring of that immense number of stock, 
entailing an increased expense. 
OTHER DISEASES. 
Many reported cases in young stock upon investigation prove to be 
the result of the presence in the bronchial tubes of the parasite Stron- 
gulus Filarioe, species Micruris. 
In some localities it exists to an alarming extent, causing a severe 
mortality; its symptoms being similar to pleuro-pneumonia, it is 
usually mistaken by the farmer for that disease; it readily yields to 
scientific treatment, but owing to the immense loss it entails, should 
receive legislative consideration. 
Hog cholera exists in the southern part of the State, and is creating 
a good deal of alarm, but not coming within the provisions of the 
act under which we are working, has received but little attention; it 
is a subject that also calls for legislative action. 
NEW FACTS. 
That we meet forms of pleuro-pneumonia varying in degrees of 
virulence is beyond question, and to that fact may be attributed the 
difference of opinion in regard to the efficacy of inoculation. When 
we frequently find the malady will run through a herd causing per- 
haps the loss of but one or two out of a large number of animals, 
and affecting the remainder to so slight a degree that the layman can 
scarcely appreciate it, we must admit it differs widely from that form 
which (under similar circumstances) causes a mortality of fifty and 
sometimes sixty per cent. 
To the former type may be traced the cause for the disputed ques- 
tion, Does an animal once affected ever recover? We are inclined to 
the negative side of the question ; after having destroyed a number of 
cases that have passed through a mild attack of the malady, we have REPORT ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
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found upon examination lung lesions generally in an encapsulated 
form ; these cases, we are willing to admit, are perfectly safe to mingle 
in a herd so long as the capsule walling up the disease germs remains 
intact, but if it should break down a condition we may very reasona- 
bly look for, and these germs be allowed to escape, will we not have 
another outbreak ? If it is true as claimed that the disease germs are 
imprisoned and lie dormant in the lung for months, even years, the 
question very naturally presents itself, Do they in the meantime lose 
their infecting principle? Until this vexed question is settled beyond 
doubt, we advise as a means of prevention, the destruction of all 
such cases. 
The annexed xeports, which I have the honor also to submit, con- 
tain statements of the work in detail. 
"Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
JAMES C. CORLIES, D. Y. S. INSPECTIONS. 
Inspections from March 26th to April 30th, 1879. 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
Hudson 
257 
1,329 
100 
Bergen 
476 
2'470 
15 
15 
3 
2 
Essex 
12 
79 
2 
Middlesex 
4 
40 
4 
Mercer 
1 
1 
1 
1 
13 
1 
2 
755 
3,949 
229 
124 
4,178 
Inspections in May, 1879 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
Hudson 
247 
1,052 
58 
Mercer 
3 
48 
2 
Middlesex 
6 
46 
1 
Morris 
10 
218 
5 
TTnion 
3 
23 
Essex 
5 
22 
2 
9 
11 
Monmouth 
2 
6 
2 
285 
1,426 
70 
703 
— 
2,129 
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Inspections in June, 1879. 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
2 
10 
1 
35 
159 
711 
23 
1.... 
13 
2 
111 
3 
Mercer 
76 
569 
1 
Somerset 
4 
43 
4 
Middlesex 
23 
225 
Gloucester 
1 
25 
6 
Monmouth 
14 
396 
Hunterdon 
5 
87 
18 
304 
2,048 
1,042 
51 
3,090 
Inspections in July, 1879 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
Hudson 
26 
144 
15 
Mercer 
53 
445 
2 
Monmouth. 
57 
767 
Middlesex 
13 
104 
2 
Hunterdon 
1 
45 
Union 
2 
112 
Bergen 
1 
11 
Morris 
7 
125 
Ussex 
239 
1,414 
Burlington 
43 
928 
6 
442 
4,095 
25 
688 
Total 
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Inspections in August, 1879 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
N umber. 
Sick. 
Hudson 
105 
1,776 
7 
Mercer 
25 
378 
4 
Union 
5 
40 
7 
1 
56 
2 
93 
16 
149 
12 
274 
Middlesex 
9 
82 
1 
2 
12 
1 
50 
24 
356 
9 
463 
211 
3,729 
19 
2,404 
6,133 
Inspections in September, 1879 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
73 
1,259 
1,981 
201 
5 
Union 
6 
' 60 
2 
4 
236 
16 
64 
Burlington 
2 
36 
Hunterdon 
19 
153 
Essex 
7 
142 
2 
7 
Bergen 
1 
11 
Warren 
2 
63 
Mercer 
4 
56 
Ocean 
1 
29 
27 
Middlesex 
2 
35 
340 
4,132 
34 
Re-inspections 
4,960 
9,092 18 
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Inspections in October', 1879 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
69 
860 
51 
593 
20 
395 
11 
62 
Monmouth 
3 
31 
12 
6 
24 
4 
95 
1 
120 
3 
27 
Mercer 
3 
66 
2 
8 
46 
4 
28 
1 
16 
1 
1 
3 
15 
3 
47 
191 
2,426 
14 
3,055 
5,481 
Inspections in November, 1879, 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
43 
953 
1 
14 
2 
77 
5 
40 
1 
1 
28 
336 
1 
17 
Mercer 
7 
73 
2 
Bergen 
3 
13 
5 
4 
6 
Gloucester 
2 
50 
7 
1 
45 
98 
1,625 
14 
2,641 
Total.. ... 
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4,266 REPORT ON PLEURO-PNEUMONI A. 
19 
Inspections to December 15th, 1879. 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
16 
46 
3 
36 
11 
64 
1 
1 
1 
13 
1 
13 
3 
5 
1 
4 
37 
182 
975 
1,157 
Total Inspections by Counties, from March 26th to December 15th, 
1879. 
COUNTIES. 
Herds. 
Number. 
Sick. 
Hudson 
1,090 
494 
7,968 
208 
Bergen 
2^521 
20 
Union 
26 
356 
11 
Essex 
302 
1,960 
591 
4 
66 
11 
Mercer 
175 
1,672 
14 
26 
496 
Morris 
22 
396 
5 
Monmouth 
106 
1,415 
14 
Ocean 
5 
' 91 
27 
6 
91 
Burlington 
60 
1,584 
400 
6 
42 
18 
3 
138 
Salem 
8 
103 
Camden 
220 
3.492 
15 
3 
2 
12 
Gloucester 
7 
311 
13 
2,663 
23,612 
16,697 
351 
Total 
40,309 
Number of cattle destroyed to December 15th, 1879, 315, of which 
number the State has paid for 79, $936, an average of $11.85 per head. 
There have been sent from Camden to Philadelphia, from August 
28th to December 15th, 1879, 217 head of stock, 40 of which num- 
ber were affected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia.