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Foot- a n d - Mot; tit Disease 



[July, 1922. 



where open-air pig keeping has been carried on extensively for at least two 

 or three decades. The chapter on suggestions to beginners is short, but is 

 full of good advice. To complete a most useful and instructive volume a 

 chapter is added on the diseases of swine. 



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Foot-and-Mouth Disease.— Since the 21st May, the date of the note 

 contained in the Journal for June, 1922. page 286, only 22 outbreaks of Foot- 

 and-Mouth Disease have been confirmed in Great Britain, bringing the total 

 up to the 22nd June, 1 1922, to 1,121, of which 1,016 were in England, 3 in 

 Wales, and 102 in Scotland. Of these 22 outbreaks, 5 occurred in Derby- 

 shire, 8 in Lancashire, 1 in Nottinghamshire, 2 in Staffordshire, 3 in Warwick- 

 shire, 1 in Worcestershire, 1 in Cheshire and 1 in Northumberland. As most 

 of the districts had been freed from the Foot-and-Mouth Disease restrictions 

 in force earlier in the year, all except the outbreak in Staffordshire occurred 

 in free districts, and necessitated the re-imposition of Orders controlling the 

 movement of animals over considerable areas around Chesterfield and 

 Bakewell (Derbyshire), Birmingham, and Rochdale (Lanes.), Holmeschapel 

 Crewe, in Cheshire, and Ponteland, near Newcastle, Northumberland. The 

 Scheduled District round Rochdale had to be extended westwards on account 

 of outbreaks at Westhoughton on 20th June, and near Liverpool on 

 22nd June. The outbreak in Nottinghamshire involved a small extension of 

 the Scheduled Area in that county. All the 22 outbreaks above mentioned 

 were dealt with by slaughter of the affected animals and of the animals in 

 direct contact with them, involving the slaughter of a total of 346 cattle, 

 100 sheep and 301 pigs. 



During the period under review, the restrictions were withdrawn entirely 

 from the remaining Scheduled Areas in Midlothian, Forfarshire, Renfrewshire, 

 Dumbartonshire, Durham, Leicestershire, and the 3 Ridings of Yorkshire 

 (except a small portion of the West Riding, forming part of the new 

 Rochdale Scheduled District). In addition the area in Berwickshire has been 

 considerably reduced. 



The origin of the disease at the new centres in Derbyshire, Warwickshire, 

 Lancashire, Cheshire and Northumberland is unknown, and it is 

 possible that infection from previous outbreaks may still be lurking in railway 

 trucks used for stock. Having this in mind the Ministry has issued a circular 

 letter to all railway companies asking them to give instructions for a special and 

 thorough cleansing of all railway trucks used for the conveyance of animals 

 in order that this source of infection may be destroyed, and Local Authorities 

 have been asked to keep special observation over the manner in which the 

 cleansing and disinfection of railway vehicles and railway pens used for stock 

 is carried out. It is also necessary that farmers should remain constantly on 

 the watch for any symptoms amongst their stock suggesting the presence of 

 Foot-and-Mouth Disease, and should report such cases immediately to the 

 police. 



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