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INCIDENCE OF ANTHRAX IN STOCK IN AUSTRALIA. 
even in this State the area in which infection from Anthrax 
may be expected or feared is limited. Taking the State 
in divisions according to its well known geographical 
features, it may be said that the whole coastal area, except 
for one spot a few miles south of Sydney, (close to the 
locality of the first recorded outbreak) is free. When it is 
remembered that the disease obtained the name of Cum- 
berland Disease from its prevalence in the central coastal 
area, this is of interest. (It is true that in 1912 mortality 
ascribed to Anthrax occurred at one spot on the far North 
East Coast, but some doubt exists in this instance). 
The tableland areas are and always appear to have 
remained free from the disease. This area includes the 
country as far west as Mudgee, Molong, Young and Hol- 
brook. North of a line joining Tamworth, and Coonamble, 
the clean country stretches right across the north-west 
plains until the Bogan River is reached, and south of this 
line is a large area in which Anthrax is all but unknown. 
It has already been noted that in 1871 it was reported in 
the New South Wales districts such as Narrabri, but this 
evidence cannot be fully accepted as will be seen from 
remarks re possible source of confusion. 
Tbe Hunter Valley presents two known Anthrax spots 
involving small groups of farms, but is otherwise free. 
The real Anthrax country occurs in a belt between the 
tablelands and the western plains, and its extent may be 
gauged from the fact that west of a line drawn from Bourke 
through Narrandera, Jerilderie and Deniliquin to Hchuca, 
the disease appears to be unknown, with the exception of 
two possible spots a little west of Bourke and one near 
Wilcannia, all on the river bank. Not that it is to be 
assumed that this belt is all Anthrax infested. Thatisfar 
from the case. For instance, within it is the whole of the 
Pastures Protection District of Molong, 80x60 miles, in 
