THR CATTLE PLAGUE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 820, 18 September 1877, Page 3

THR CATTLE PLAGUE.

iT a meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, held in Lsulon on July 4, a report on the cattle )lague by Professor Brown was read, and ihe following is an extract; from it : — The country is not yet officially de* jlared f ree of cattle plague, but lamin a }OBition to state that the disease has ceased, the promineot facts in tbe history of the mtbteak are already before the com* nittee, but it may be interesting to make i statement of the localities io .which ;he disease has oocured, and the number )f animals which have been sacrificed iu ionßtquei.ee. In England altogether 46 outbreaks oo* jurrtd among 1089 cattle, of which 850 Here slaughtered healthy, 1 escaped; 253 were attacked with tbe disease, of ivhiub 219 were killed and 34 died. In several couuties the outbreaks were is follows. — In Essex six outbreaks occored among 23 cattle, of which 15 were slaughtered healthy; 8 wtre attacked wifn the disease, of which 7 were killed, and 1 died. Id Lincolnshire one outbreak ocorred umong 24 cattle, of which J8 weie blau^htered healihy j 6 were attacked and killed. Tn Middlesex (ex Metropolis there were five outbreaks among 425 cattle, of which 322 were slaughtered healthy ; 103 were attacked, of which 86 were killed, and 17 died. In York (East Riding) there were 7 outbreaks among 65 cattle, of which 46 were slaughtered h< althy ; 19 were attacked, of which 17 were killed, and 2 died. . In the metropolis there were 27 out. breaks among 522 animal?, of which 434 w*ra slaughtered healthy, one escaped ; 117 were attacked, of which 103 were killed, and 14 died. '

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