Excerpt from Report on the Results Obtained by the Special Committee for the Investigation of Infectious Anemia Among Horses a. Organization of the Committee for the Investigation of Infectious Anemia of Horse. The Special Committee for the Investigation of Infectious Anemia of Horse was organized by the Government in July, 1909, and it has been put under the control of the Bureau of Horse Administration. The reason for establishing the committee is as follows: Lately outbreaks of a peculiar horse disease were noticed at several important breeding districts in Hokkaido and the north-eastern part of Hondo (main island of Japan). Several hundreds have already been lost both in the Remount Depot. of Military Horses and among horse owners. This disease, which causes pernicious anemia, is mainly confined to the pasturing districts. Since almost all the horses that contract the disease are sure to die, it has created considerable alarm among horse breeders in Japan. Despite the fact that its etiology had been assiduously investigated at several governmental institutions, satisfactory results had not been obtained. Moreover, in the affected regions no means of checking the disease had ever been attempted because of the entire lack of knowledge of its causative factors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.