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of the herd, then consisting of eleven cows, five 

 sucking calves, three yearling heifers, and one bull. 

 The bull had been imported from Alderney for several 

 months. About a month after namely, on the 29th 

 of July a cow in calf was attacked with unusual 

 symptoms. She was separated from the rest ; nourish- 

 ing drinks were administered ; but, having calved, she 

 died forty-eight hours after the first symptoms were 

 observed. This led to the belief that she died of the 

 disease which then began to prevail. This cow had 

 been pastured with the others in a field occasionally 

 used for grazing sheep that were taken to the Metro- 

 politan Cattle-market, and, if not sold, brought back 

 again until the next market day ; the sheep were sepa- 

 rated from the cows by iron hurdles. The Holly Lodge 

 Estate is partly bounded on the east by the route 

 taken by drovers with foreign and other cattle to and 

 from the market, some of which are also occasionally 

 brought back to neighbouring fields. The high road 

 forms the western boundary within a few yards of the 

 cattle-sheds and pastures. These facts are stated to 

 show that the contagion might have been easily com- 

 municated to the animals. A few days later three 

 calves were attacked with cold shivering and twitching 

 of the muscles. The previous nights having be- 

 come suddenly and unusually cold and wet, the 

 symptoms were at first attributed to that cause. 

 Although these calves had been pastured quite apart 

 from the cow which first died, the cow had been 

 driven across the field where the calves lay to the 

 shed in which it died, the calves having been placed 

 in the next shed, where two of them died on the 6th 



