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of anthrax among cattle at Hissar the disease had likewise affected
the sheep at the same time.

    Colonel Pallin said that he had received no report of anthrax
among military animals during the past year while he had been
A. D. V. S. to the Eastern Command. Twenty years ago, however,
while he was stationed at Meerut he had experience of an outbreak
of anthrax among the artillery horses.

    During the previous year the disease had also occurred among
these horses and he took pains to trace the origin of the outbreak,
and after taking the usual precautions he fixed on some stacks
of hay which the artillery horses used to have in those days, and
which were procured from the same place and made up of grass
brought in by the grass cutters. It was concluded that the butts
of these stacks were the source of infection. The stacks were burnt
to the ground and no further trouble was caused. In 1902, about
the same time, his attention was called to the sudden deaths of
horses in the Viceroy's bodyguard at Dehra Dun. When he got
to the stables he discovered that five horses there were already
dead and five more were on the point of dying. Thus ten animals
out of 110 became affected. The source of infection was traced to
the green grass brought in by the grass cutters which was found
to have been cut from the banks of a river into which carcases were
usually thrown. On his recommendation no further supplies of
grass were brought in from this area, and no further cases of disease
occurred. A considerable amount of disease was caused and spread
by throwing carcases into the beds of rivers.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson further emphasized that the
country was at present faced either with heavy expenditure in
setting up methods of disinfection, which would be quite unpro-
ductive or with what would also admittedly be a heavy expendi-
ture upon controlling disease in live-stock, which nevertheless
would connote an improvement in live-stock, so that this
expenditure would be productive. Unless steps were taken to
eradicate the disease the export trade might suffer.

    In reply to Mr. Hewlett he stated that compulsory legislation
might be advocated by the International Labour Conference to
meet in 1924 and admitted that eradication could not immediately
follow the enforcement of legislation.

    Mr. Kerr raised the question as to the susceptibility of goats
to anthrax. He was under the impression that they were more
resistant than the other domestic animals.

    Mr. Edwards said that, in his experience recently at Muktesar,
he found that certain strains of anthrax proved to be extremely