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more favourable to a fair trial of both than they could 

 expect to find in crowded cowsheds, many of which 

 were in a filthy condition and badly ventilated. He 

 pointed out the progress the plague had made, and 

 was still making, in the metropolis, and how its effects 

 upon the high price of meat and milk were affecting 

 -all classes of the community. The difficulties, he 

 said, of adequately meeting the necessities of the case 

 were at present very great, and some of these consisted 

 in the alleged illegality of slaughtering diseased 

 animals without an order from a magistrate, and also 

 the illegality of removing those diseased from the 

 cowsheds to the hospitals, supposing the latter to 

 exist. But he hoped the Government, who had no 

 doubt well considered a subject of such vast import- 

 ance, would speedily do away with those difficulties, 

 and render the fullest aid to the Markets' Committee 

 and Metropolitan Cattle Plague Committee, who were 

 unceasingly devoting their time and attention to miti- 

 gate, and, if possible, put an end to the evil. At present, 

 however, the object of the deputation was limited to 

 that of obtaining the sanction of the Government to 

 the establishment of the hospitals or sanatoriums. 

 This was an object which had not only received the 

 general approval of the two committees mentioned, 

 but also of the medical profession, and he might 

 add, what it was by no means unimportant to bear 

 in mind, that the cowkeepers themselves and the 

 salesmen of the Cattle Market were also in favour 

 of it. 



Mr. Gibbins and the several members of the depu- 

 tation corroborated what had fallen from the Lord 



