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And that, your worship, is what I complain of. Mr. 

 Burcham : You think that the practice to which you 

 have called my attention is calculated to propagate 

 the extension of the disease. Mr. Stanley declared 

 that the skins were disinfected under his especial 

 orders. Mr. Burcham remarked that the animals had 

 been taken to the slaughter-house, not for the purpose 

 of being killed and buried, but that their skins should 

 be taken off and disinfected. Why should they have 

 been taken to Mitcham ? Mr. Stanley stated that 

 the disease could not be communicated from a dead 

 animal, and it was conveyed only by inoculation, or 

 through the breath of a living animal upon the dead 

 body of a diseased ox. Mr. Burcham : I do not 

 agree with you in that opinion. I believe that 

 infection may be conveyed by a dead animal. Mr. 

 Ebsworth said that such was his opinion, and, having 

 regard to 28,000 patients in the parisb, be had felt it 

 his bounden duty to come forward to make this com- 

 plaint. He thought such things ought not to occur. 

 Mr. Burcham was of the same opinion, and that such 

 a commodity ought not to be allowed to be conveyed 

 through the public streets in open carts. Just before 

 the magistrate was about to rise, Mr. Stanley intro- 

 duced to his worship Professor Simoncls, and a long 

 colloquy (in private) ensued between them. At its 

 close Professor Simonds retired, and Mr. Burcham 

 said : I wish to state that I wanted to be satisfied that 

 everything was done by Mr. Stanley that could be 

 done under the circumstances by which he was sur- 

 rounded, in the midst of great difficulty. I have had an 

 interview with Professor Simonds, and he informs me 



