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which no case of the disease is recorded since 1915, four- 
fifths of the P.P. District of Urana in which Anthrax is 
unknown, and many similar areas. However, there do 
exist in this belt somewhat well defined areas in which 
Anthrax has occurred severely in the past and where it 
occasionally recurs. : , 
Judging by past records these areas are steadily and 
continuously decreasing in number and extent. The 
position in Victoria is one of equally remarkable interest. 
If the outbreaks officially recorded are taken from 1909 to 
1921, it will be seen that with one possible exception they 
are all included in an area between two lines, one drawn 
from Casterton to Echuca, the other from Albury to the 
northern shore of Western Port. Within this area the 
outbreaks are again grouped in certain well defined locali- 
ties. As will be noted, this area is practically an extension 
to the south and west of the New South Wales Belt. 
Again we have to note a steady decrease in the number 
of outbreaks. For the last few years they have been as. 
follows :— 
1909 9 1915 2 
1910 5) 1916 2 
1911 7 1917 1 
1912 3 1918 0 
1913 2 1919 3 
1914 1 1920 1 
What gives peculiar interest to the recent distribution 
of Anthrax in Victoria, is the fact that in 1877 Graham. 
Mitchell published a map showing the area of country 
which Park and himself declared to be infested with An- 
thrax. Their statement met with strenuous opposition, 
particularly from the State Officials, but it is evident that 
they were very close to the truth for the area they declared 
Infected, except for a small extension to the north, agrees 
