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NOTE J. 



Yesterday morning Dr. Jarvis, medical officer of St. 

 Matthew's, Bethnal-green, received information that 

 Mr. Castell, an extensive purveyor of milk, had lost 

 eighty-four cows during the past week. Other cow- 

 keepers in this district have also experienced great 

 losses. The disease has manifested itself with more 

 or less virulence at St. Anne's, Limehouse ; St. John, 

 Hackney : St. Mary-le-Bow, St. George's-in-the-East, 

 St. John, Wapping ; Christ Church, Spitalfields ; St. 

 Leonard's, Shorediteh ; St. Mary, Whitechapel ; St. 

 Paul's, Shadwell ; the hamlet of Ratcliff, Stoke New- 

 ington, Kingsland, and Tottenham. 



Mr. Gibbins, chairman of the Metropolitan Markets 

 Committee, Mr. Rudkin, a member of the committee, 

 Mr. Tegg, veterinary surgeon to the market, and Mr. 

 Baldry, clerk to the market, applied to the sitting 

 magistrate at Clerkenwell Police Court yesterday for 

 summonses against cowkeepers for sending diseased 

 cows into the market. During the course of the pre- 

 sent week no less than nineteen cows had been seized 

 in the market and lairs and condemned. The order 

 was asked for under the 8th section of the recent 

 Order in Council, which recited that it shall not be 

 lawful to send or bring to any fair or market, or to 

 send or carry by any railway, or by any ship or vessel 

 coastwise, or to place upon or to drive along any 

 highway, or the sides thereof, any animal labouring 

 under disease. The cattle seized had not been exa- 

 mined by a Government inspector, and no certificate 



