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4. Fresh bones, fresh skins, and intestines, unmelted 

 tallow, raw flesh, and fresh sheepskins, should not be 

 sold whenever the Kinderpest exists in a district. 



According to all the accounts which reach us, the 

 foreign observations and resolutions may be of essen- 

 tial service in England. The members of the Assembly 

 were informed by Mr. Erner of the origin and the 

 progress of the cattle plague in England, and were 

 deeply interested by the account given of the immi- 

 nent danger in which many countries are placed that 

 purchase breeding stock in the British isles. The 

 theories of spontaneous origin amuse the learned here 

 not a little, as they justly think we ought not to be so 

 far behind every nation in the possession of knowledge 

 regarding the propagation of such a disorder as the 

 steppe murrain. 



NOTE E. 



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. Whether the disease came from abroad 

 or elsewhere he was not able to state. Sir George Grey 

 asked him whether he had found any disease among 

 the foreign cattle that came into the market. He had 

 not one. He could only say they had had no cases, ex- 

 cept in cows, whether they came from the dairies in 

 London or elsewhere. So far as they knew, not one 

 single bullock or ox had been condemned. MR. GIB- 

 BINS, 18th August, Meeting at the Mansion House. 



The very first shed in which the plague must have 

 appeared in London is a pattern of cleanliness, and 



