986 



Babies. 



[Jan., 



Southampton and it was considered necessary further to extend the Scheduled 

 District so as to include amongst other places Southampton and Winchester. 



Further outbreaks were confirmed on the 7th and 13th December at 

 Ramsbury and Baydon, Wilts, respectively, but neither of these cases 

 necessitated any extension of restrictions. 



Glamorgan. — A further case of Rabies was confirmed in the Glamorgan 

 Hunt Kennels on the 20tli December. 



Berkshire. — Two outbreaks of Rabies have been confirmed in the borough 

 of Reading on the 11th and 13th December respectively. Reading is in the 

 district subject to the restrictions applicable to another controlled area, and the 

 occurrence of these outbreaks did not necessitate any alteration of the restric- 

 tions. 



London District. — A case of Rabies in a dog at Acton was confirmed on the 

 8th December. An Order has been made in consequence by the Ministry, 

 requiring : 



(a) The muzzling at all times and the leading when in a public place of all 

 dogs in an Inner Controlled Area, and prohibiting entirely the movement of 

 •dogs out of this Inner Area. 



(b) Prohibiting the movement of dogs out of an Outer Scheduled District 

 surrounding the Inner Area. 



Full information was issued to the press on 9th Decendjer. 



Foot - and - Mouth Disease. — Kent ( Faversham District). — All 

 restrictions inqjosed on account of the outbreaks in tlie Faversham District 

 were removed as from the 6th December. 



Kent (Winr/har/i District). — The existence of foot-and-mouth disease was 

 •confirmed on premises at Betteshanger on the 30th November, and it was 

 necessary once more to impose the usual restrictions over an area within a 

 radius of 15 miles from the infected premises. Fortunately no spread of the 

 disease occurred, and the Ministry was able to modify the restrictions by the 

 exclusion of a considerable poition of the Scheduled District as from the 

 7th December. 



Hereford. — On the 12th December an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease 

 was confii med on premises at Mordiford, near Hereford. The circumstances 

 connected with this outbreak were serious, as animals which were recently 

 exposed at Hereford and Shrewsbury Markets w^ere infected. On the 

 14th December disease was found to exist at Ledbury and Lugwardine, 

 Herefordshire, the origin l)eing directly due to the Mordiford outbreak. 

 Both these places were within the district to which the initial prohibition 

 of movement restrictions were applied on the 12th December. 



Gloucester-shire. — On the 16th December two outbreaks of the disease 

 were confirmed on premises at Woolridge, Hartpury, near Gloucester, in 

 animals which had been in contact with the affected animals at Ledbury, 

 Herefordshire, where disease was confirmed on the 14th December. These 

 •outbreaks necessitated an extension of the Herefordshire Scheduled District. 



Shrewsbury. — On the 16th December two outbreaks were also confirmed in 

 Salop, one at Myddle, and the other at Basechurch, both near Shrewsbur}'. 

 In both cases the affected animals had been purchased in Shrewsbury Market 

 on the 10th December and in Hereford Maiket on the 8th December, and had 

 been in contact with one of the affected animals at Mordiford Farm, Hereford- 

 shire. An Order was made prohibiting movement of animals over an aiea of 

 15 miles radius from Shrewsbury. 



