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the more serious ones, and in the later maps every place is marked 

 from which even a single case of Strongylosis had been 

 reported. 



In the original maps each place from which " Disease " 

 was reported was marked by name, but for the present purpose 

 it is thought undesirable to do more than indicate by a dot the 

 district in which the outbreak occurred. 



Beginning with the year 1872 it will be seen that " Grouse 

 Disease " was general throughout the greater part of Scotland, 

 and when it is remembered that only the most severe epidemics 

 were noted it may be imagined that the country as a whole was 

 very severely affected. The really disastrous year, however, 



1884 



was 1873, when the mortality was so widespread that the stock 

 was reduced to a condition from which it took years to recover. 

 What moors were not cleared of Grouse in 1873 were swept 

 by the scourge in 1874, and then there commenced a series of 

 lean years during which there were few Grouse and little disease. 



