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In Lower Burma a few cases only have been observed,—viz., in Ran-
goon, Prome, and Thayetmyo.

Mr. Remington, Managing Director of the Bombay Tramway Com-
pany, kindly supplied us in August 1892 with the attached statement,
giving particulars of 14 horses belonging to the stud of the Bombay
Tramway Company, which were attacked with surra fever in the
months of November and December 1888.

Locality and description of the stable.—It will be observed that
of the 14 cases of surra, 10 cases have come from the Company's Parel
stables. These stables were constructed in 1886, with accommodation
for 174 horses, and this was the actual number kept there during the
two months when the outbreak prevailed. The stables are situated on
the Parel Road, in the northern and most inland quarter of Bombay
They are bounded on the north by an enclosure about 5,000 square
yards in area, which is used as a vegetable market, and skirted on (3)
three sides by lines of brick-built chawls; on the south by an open
space reserved for the purposes of a proposed new station by the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway Company; on the east by the Parel Road, on
the other side of which are the Victoria Gardens; and on the west by the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway track, beyond which again for some
distance there is open land. About 2,000 feet from the stables the
flats commence: open, low-lying vacant land which extends for several
miles, and the greater portion of which is under water during the
monsoon. For the two and a half years the stables have been in use,
there has, up to last November, hardly been a single case of fever in
them. The stables are splendidly ventilated, and the drainage is on
the surface system, and could not be better. The stalls and all the
stable fittings are kept most scrupulously clean, and bad smells are
unknown. The temperature at Parel generally ranges 2º lower than
at Colaba, especially at night. The Colaba stables are situated in the
Colaba Causeway. To the north is a large piece of maidan, belonging
to Government, sometimes submerged during the monsoon for a few
days at a time; to the south are goods stations and yards belonging to
the two railway companies; to the east the Colaba Causeway Road,
with the sea about 600 feet beyond; to the west open maidan with the
sea distant about 1,000 feet. The average number of horses stabled at
Colaba during November and December was 574. The drainage of the
stables is inferior to that at Parel, being on an underground system.
Great care, however, is taken in flushing the drains, and keeping the
premises scrupulously clean. The ventilation of the stables is good.
Fever has often been prevalent in these stables in October and
November, but the number of fatal cases has been few, and the disease
has usually disappeared as soon as the cold weather set in.