Foot and Mouth Disease.
';.- . 'A letter from London, September 16, pibhshsd m Chicago, says that foot and mouth disease is reported to b? spreading rapidly m Bedfordshire. The infection appeared m nearly every pa isb.- About- 100 -head of cattle are already infected m this division, besides several flocks of sheep. Every fresh outbreak of the disease is reported to iSpaldingv The local authorities yesterday morning were making a tour of eighty-; infected places m the distriat. Peterboro, Hillsby, Horncas'le, and Grantbam are all afraid. From Norfbld pWures'theTdiseaseis reported as spreading. It is not traceable to sales or •movements of catde. There now 248 seats of disease m the county, and for, the week.ending Ist September,' 1043 cattle, 3003 sheep, and 49 hogs .were returned as infected. A further despatch says the disease threatens the ruin of "tens of thousands fo farmers. It now extends; from Cheshire across country to Lincolnshire, and along the JEastern and Southern Coa>t .as far as ■fievbh'hi're. T Grazierß ' and farmeif s are . panic stricken.,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 270, 18 October 1883, Page 2
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170Foot and Mouth Disease. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 270, 18 October 1883, Page 2
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