CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF
              HÆMORRHAGIC SEPTICÆMIA.

                                       BY

            S. H. GAIGER, M.R.C.V.S., I.C.V.D.,

   From the Punjab Veterinary College Laboratory.

THIS disease has been known in India for about ten years,
but it is only within the last four or five that the study
of it, as it occurs in this country, has been seriously
taken up.

Only within the last few years, too, has it been realised
how great the losses are from it, and that many deaths which
ten years ago were returned as anthrax ought really to have
been returned as Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia.

I only intend to deal here with the disease as it occurs
in India, and most of the facts recorded are the results of my
own observations and study of the disease here.

The quantity of literature on the subject in India is
extremely small, and is as follows :—

The Annual Reports of the Civil Veterinary Depart-
ment in India.

The Annual Reports of the Imperial Bacteriologist.

Agricultural Ledger Series.

Journal of Tropical Veterinary Science, Vol. I, Part
III. Evans.

Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics,
June 1907. Webb.

An article by Baldrey in the Journal of Tropical Veter-
inary Science, Vol. II, does not deal with the Indian strain
of bacillus.