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It \vas no reflection to say that a great many cases 

 could be traced directly to the metropolitan market. 

 Take one case which occurred in Sussex. Certain 

 cattle had been bought in the metropolitan market 

 find were taken home. In three or four days they 

 were ill, and presented symptoms of this affection. In 

 a few days more the cows and calves were dead. In 

 another instance calves were bought in Chichester 

 Market, where they had been taken from London. 

 The result was the death of twelve cows and ten calves. 

 The people had other cattle on the same farm, and not 

 one of them took it. He could say, too, that persons 

 who had only one animal had lost it by the disease. How 

 had the disease got into Norfolk and Kent but by the 

 animals which went from the metropolitan market ? 

 He could prove by documentary evidence that it was 

 so. He could show there was not a single instance 

 where the origin of the disease could not be traced to 

 the metropolis. It was the most fearful visitation that 

 had ever been seen in England. They had adopted a 

 system of compensation in Norfolk, and if by this 

 meeting something was done to shut out the animals 

 of infected districts, no doubt the promoters would 

 receive not only the thanks of London, but the country 

 generally. 



Mr. Gibbins Now, if the disease came from abroad, 

 and diseased cattle were shipped on the other side of 

 the sea, no doubt the voyage would concentrate and 

 aggravate the disease. The Government inspectors 

 reported, however, that not one instance had been seen 

 of foreign cattle so diseased, nor had any been seized 

 and destroyed in London or anywhere else. Whether 



