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

 26th October, just as the Ministry was about to withdraw all restrictions 

 imposed on the movement of animals in connection with the outbreak of 

 Foot-and-Mouth Disease at Baddlesmere, near Faversham, two further 

 outbreaks occurred in the neighbourliood of Faversham, namely, one at Oare 

 and one at Stone. As a consequence, it was necessary to reimpose restrictions 

 over the usual area of 15 miles' radius, it being considered unsafe to make 

 any modification of the usual practice in this respect, owing to the fact that 

 an animal from the infected premises had recently been exposed in Sitting- 

 bourne Market. A further outbreak occurred at Oare on 2nd November, but 

 since that date there has uot been any spread of the disease. On 

 9th November the restrictions were modified as regards the outer portions of 

 the district distant more than 5 miles from the infected places, and were 

 entirely withdrawn from those outer parts of the area as from 16th November. 

 The prohibition of movement now remains in force only in respect of the 

 area lying within a radius of 5 miles of the infected places. 



Suffolk (Woodbridge District). — On 19th November, the existence of 

 Foot-and-Mouth Disease was confirmed on two farms in the occupation of the 

 same owner, situated within about a quarter of a mile of each other at 

 Martlesham, Woodbridge. The usual Order was at once issued applying 

 restrictions to an area in Suffolk within a radius of 15 miles of the infected 

 premises. No information is yet available as to the origin of the outbreaks. 



Rabies. — Wiltshire and Dorset. — On 29th October an outbreak of Rabies 

 was confirmed in a dog located at Shillingstone, near Blandford, Dorset. The 

 premises were just outside the district originally scheduled on account of the 

 outbreaks in Wiltshire, and it was therefore necessary to extend the area so as 

 to include the district within a radius of 15 miles of Shillingstone not already 

 within the controlled districts. On 16th November a fuither case occurred on 

 premises near Fiddleford, near Stur'minstei-, Newton, Dorset, about 4 miles 

 from Shillingstone, and another on 19th November at Bishopstone, Salisbury. 

 Thirteen outbreaks of Kabies have now been confirmed in this district since 

 the original case on 14th August. In view of the improved position as 

 regards the Wiltshire portion of the area, it was possible to contract the inner 

 controlled area so as to compiise only the district lying within 5 miles of 

 Wilton and Salisbury in which the majority of the cases in Wiltshire have 

 been confirmed. 



Glamorgan. — No further outbreak has occurred in this district, and in view 

 of the fact that the disease has not spread from the kennels of the G-lamorgan 

 Hunt, in which it was originally confirmed on 11th September, the Ministry 

 on 13th November contracted the scheduled district so as to comprise only the 

 country lying mthin about 8 miles of Cowbridge. 



Berkshire. — Only one further outbreak has been confirmed in Berkshire, 

 namely, on 19th October, on premises at Caversham, in th© Borough of 

 Reading. 



