FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.
ENGLISH OUTBEEAK ISOLATED. News b.\- the English mail states that there lias been no further case of foot-and-mouth disease, so that it is believed the isolated outbreak iu Surrey has been suppressed, and it is hoped that the Board of Agriculture may soon be able to make an official ileclaratW to this effect. Mr. Charles Bathurst asked tho Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, in tho House of Commons whether the samo measures had been taken to trace tho cause of the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey a3 was adopted in 1308 in tho case, of the Edinburgh outbreak; what were those measures; whether I hey were still in progress; and what wem the prospects of their success. Sir Edward Strachey replied to the effect that, as in all similar cases, including that of Edinburgh, tho fullest inquiries . were at once set on foot with a view to discover the possible origin of the outbreak. Special attention is being directed to the possibility of infection by means of any articles of foreign origin -recently brought to the infected place. The inquiries are still proceeding. It was-'not possible, then, to say whether any definite result would bo obtained.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 8
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202FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 8
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