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appeared in a London cowhouse, and six weeks later it was 

 detected on a farm near Hastings. The first of these outbreaks 

 was suppressed by prompt slaughter of all the cattle on the 

 premises, and in the second outbreak isolation was successfully- 

 employed to prevent the spread of the disease. The disease 

 re-appeared in 1894, but it was limited to three outbreaks. 

 During the following five years the country was free from the 

 disease, but it broke out again in January, 11)00, and between 

 that date and April, 190], thirty-three outbreaks, with 935 

 animals attacked, occurred. In the following year there was 

 only one outbreak, and as that occurred at a short distance 

 from the scene of an outbreak in the previous year it is possible 

 that the infection in this case may have persisted, and that the 

 outbreak did not originate from the fresh introduction of the 

 virus. During the period 1903 to 1907 no outbreak was 

 recorded in Great Britain, but in 1908 the disease re-appeared 

 in Scotland (Midlothian), in which country there had been no 

 outbreak for fifteen years previously. It was stamped out 

 after it had extended to three different premises, and the 

 country was again free until 1910, in which year two outbreaks 

 occurred in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The disease 

 re-appeared in 1911, breaking out in five different English 

 counties, and extending to nineteen different premises. 



After six months of apparent freedom from the disease four 

 outbreaks were detected in the week ended June 29, 1912, 

 viz., two in Cumberland and two in Lancaster, Between that 

 date and December 7 seventy-nine outbreaks were discovered 

 in different parts of the country, the counties involved in 

 addition to the two mentioned being Chester, Durham, 

 Northumberland, Surrey, East and West Ridings of Yorkshire. 

 Leicester, Somerset, Salop, Sussex, Stafford, Kent, and Hants, 

 In these eighty-three outbreaks 645 animals were attacked. 



In cannot be said that the exact source of the infection has 

 been determined in any of these numerous occasions on which 

 the disease has been introduced since the importation of live 

 cattle, except for slaughter at the port of landing, has been 

 prohibited, although in the case of the Midlothian outbreak in 

 1908 circumstances seemed to incriminate imported foreign 

 hay. It is obvious, however, that whenever the disease is very 

 prevalent in Continental countries which have extensive 

 traffic with Great Britain there is a possibility that the 

 virus of the disease, adhering to human beings or inanimate 

 objects, may be imported, and in this connection it is a 

 noteworthy fact that the disease has most frequently made its 

 appearance in Great Britain when it has been very prevalent 

 in Germany, Holland, France, or Belgium. Moreover, Denmark 

 although isolated from the Continent has had an experience 



