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NOTE T. 



August 31. 



DEPUTATION TO THE HOME OFFICE. Yesterday 

 afternoon the Lord Mayor proceeded from the Man- 

 sion House to the Home Office, and had an inter- 

 view with Mr. Waddington on the subject of the 

 cattle plague, and the desirability of establishing hos- 

 pitals or sanatoriums within the metropolitan dis- 

 tricts for the reception and medical treatment of 

 diseased cattle. His lordship was accompanied on 

 the occasion by the following deputation from the 

 Markets and Cattle Plague Committees : Mr. Gibbins 

 (Chairman of the Markets Committee), Mr. Webber, 

 Mr. Gower, Mr. Brewster, Mr. Rudkin, and Dr. 

 Jarvis (the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal- 

 green). Sir George Grey having left London for Fal- 

 loden, 



The Lord Mayor introduced the deputation to Mr. 

 Waddington, and in doing so, said that their object 

 was to obtain the sanction of Government to the es- 

 tablishment of hospitals or sanatoriums within the 

 metropolitan districts, to which diseased cattle could 

 be conveyed from the cowsheds in order that they 

 might there receive medical treatment, and be, if pos- 

 sible, restored to health. He observed that similar 

 establishments had been formed at Edinburgh and 

 other large towns, and that they had been found to 

 work most satisfactorily, not only in separating the 

 diseased cattle from those which were non-diseased, 

 but in affording facilities to the medical profession to 

 exercise their skill and knowledge under circumstances 



