REPORT. 
TO THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. 
My Place 
1. Your Lordship having been pleased by your letter of instruction, dated 16th Referevice. 
April 1888, to appoint a Departmental Committee to inquire into, and to report upon, 
the nature and extent of pleuro-pneumonia in the United Kingdom, and the effects of 
inoculation and other preventive measures in that disease; and also to inquire into the 
nature and extent of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom, and the means to be adopted 
to arrest its progress,— 
2. We have now the honour to report that immediately upon receiving your Lord- 
ship’s commands we proceeded to the duties thus imposed upon us. 
3. We met for the first time on the 17th of April, and thereupon commenced taking 
evidence, and continued our meetings from time to time up to the 4th of June. During 
that interval we sat for 17 days and examined 44 witnesses, as hereafter described. 
4. Toran Number or Witnesses, 44. 
ENGLAND (13). 
Mr. J. Dunne - - | Chief Constable  - - - | Cumberland and Westmoreland 
Mr. C. Stephenson, F.R. C. V.S. - | Veterinary Ganmenn . - | Northumberland. 
Mr. A. Dean - - | Farmer - - - | Lincolnshire. 
Mr. J, Williams Bell —- - | Farmer - - | Dorsetshire, 
Mr. R, Bruce - - | Farmer and Stock Dealer '- - - | Yorkshire. 
Mr. Woodroof, M.R.C.V. S. - | Vet. Surgeon - - - | London. 
Mr. Alexander - - - | Cowkeeper - - - | London. 
Mr. W. Stratton - - - | Tenant Farmer’ - - - | Wilts. 
Mr. Low - - - - | Justice of the Peace - - | Kent. 
Mr. Latter - - - | Clerk, Divisional si evare L.A.- | Bromley, Kent. 
Mr. Tisdall - - . Dairyman - - | Kensington. 
Mr. A. Lingard - - - | M.R.C.S., D.P.H.,, ‘Camb, . - | London. 
Mr. Allender - - . Managing Director, Aylesbury Dairy | Horsham, Sussex. 
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Scorianp (16). 
Mr. Spreull, F.R.C.V.S. - - | Veterinary Inspector for Burough - | Dundee. 
Mr. Canad gham, M.R.C.V.S._  - | Veterinary Surgeon - - | Edinburgh. 
Mr. Rutherford, F.R.C.V.S. - | Veterinary Rangoon: - - | Edinburgh. 
Mr. W. Care - - - |-Dairyman - - - | Edinburgh. 
Mr. Swa E: - - | Live Steck Salestaan - - | Edinburgh. 
Mr. Stenhouse, junr. . -| Farmer - p - | Midlothian. 
Mr. Biggar - - -| Farmer - - - - | Dalbeattie. 
Mr. T. Elliot - - - | Farmer - - - | Galashiels. 
Mr. A. Mitchell - : - | President, Shovthorn meniely - | Alloa. 
Mr. Duthie: - - | Farmer - - | Perthshire. 
Prof. McFadyean, M.B., B. Sc.,and | Royal Veterinary College - - | Edinburgh. 
C.M. 
Mr. Speir - - - | Farmer. - - - - | Lanarkshire. 
Mr. Drummond Forbes — - - | Landowner - - | Perthshire. 
Mr. Peel Ritchie, M.D. - - | President, College of Surgeons - | Edinburgh. 
Mr. Littlejohn, M.D. - - | Medical Officer of Health - - | Edinburgh. 
Prof. McCall, F.R.C.V.S. - | Principal, Vet. College —- - | Glasgow. 
