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Title: Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Rhode Island. State Board of Health
Subjects: Vital Statistics
Publisher: Providence : E. L. Freeman & Co., printers to the state
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CATTLE COMMISSION. It is with great satisfaction the Secretary can report the continuedcomparatively healthy condition of the domestic animals of the Statethrough the year 1885. Hog cholera prevailed in several of the towns in separate localitiesand to a more limited extent than during the previous year. Itwould seem from the circummstances which almost invariably areconnected with the occurrence of hog chok-ra in this State, that evenhogs may suffer in health from superabundance of putrefying tilth,in crowded quarters and especially when associated in large numbers. A few cases of pink eye among horses in one locality, and ap-pearing simultaneously, seemed the harbingers of a local, if not ageneral epidemic. They proved to be sjjoradic cases only, and werenot severe in character. GLANDERS. It will hardly be possible to report in any year, the freedom of theState from eases of glanders and farcy. So many horses are broughtinto the State from infected localities, and such introduction

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