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Chicken Plague

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 26, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 24.

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Chicken Plague.

New Cause for Alarm—A Terrible Disease Among the Fowls in New York and Pennsylvania—All the Symptoms of the Epizootic.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—For the last few days, a very noticeable decrease in the fowls has been observed in the markets of this city, and especially at the poultry stalls in Washington Market. In many instances, chickens which are dressed and sent to market have dark streaks in the neck, and the head is swollen to an unusual size. A terrible disease has broken out in the poultry pens in several places throughout the State, and has caused a considerable amount of commotion among the poultry and game dealers in this city, notwithstanding some of the dealers in fowls in Washington Market yesterday denied all knowledge of the disease. They were disposing of hens and chickens bearing evidence of having died of the disease. One dealer admitted the existence of a disease, and said that a few days ago he was in Pennsylvania, and all along the banks of the Susquehanna the poultry were dying in thousands from the disease, and nothing had been found to arrest it. Fowls are taken with staggering fits, running at the beaks, and, in fact, bearing all the symptoms of the epizootic. These fits renew with decreasing intervals and increasing violence until death, which generally ensues in a few hours after the attack. As soon as chickens are attacked, they hide in holes, or crawl off to some corner.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Along the line of the Hudson River a terrible disease has broken out among poultry, chickens dying by hundreds, and turkeys, geese, and ducks in the market show signs of the malady. The disease appears to be assuming the form of a destructive pestilence among domestic fowls.
DROPSY, the new horse disease, has made its appearance in all the city car stables. Fifty per cent of the horses attacked are said to die, and the horses affected are mainly those worked while suffering from the epidemic. Stablemen are being alarmed, as they thought the disease was disappearing.