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FoOT-AND-MoUTH DiSEASE. 



[July, 



Rabies.— Since the last issue of the Journal, there have been no develop- 

 ments in the Middlesex and Berkshire districts. Two further cases, however, 

 were confirmed on 10th June at Salisbury and at Chandler's Ford near 

 Southampton, in the Wilts, Dorset, and Hampshire Area. 



Poot-and-Mouth Disease.— /re/antZ. — On the 21st May the Ministry 

 received information from the Irish Department of Agriculture that Foot-and- 

 Mouth Disease had been confirmed at New Ross, County Wexford, and that 

 an area of 15 miles radius therefrom had been scheduled for restrictions. The 

 Ministry thereupon prohibited further landing of store stock from Ireland, but 

 continued the existing provision for the landing of fat stock for slaughter 

 within the landing places within 72 hours of landing. 



The disease was confirmed among cattle which were practically grazing 

 together, but owned by two people. Subsequently, on the 28th May, a further 

 outbreak of disease was confirmed by the Irish Department in the sariie 

 locality, and on the 2nd June disease was found to exist on a neighbouring 

 farm. These later outbreaks did not, however, involve any extension of the 

 Scheduled District. 



On the 13th June, store cattle from parts of Ireland outside the 15 mile 

 area, were admitted at certain landing places for 14 day quarantine in the 

 landing ph^ce. 



Great Britain. — The restrictions in connection with the outbreaks at 

 Draycott (Derbyshire), Bebington (Cheshire) and North Runeton (Norfolk), 

 referred to in previous issues of the Journal, have been withdrawn. 



Yorkshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire. — The restrictions in connection with 

 the outbreak of disease at Thurstonland, near Huddersfield, have now been 

 withdrawn. 



On the 18th May disease was confirmed at Harthill, Rotherham, on the 

 Southern border of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and as a result the usual 

 restrictions were imposed in respect of an area within a radius of 15 miles 

 from that place. On the 22od May the confirmation of disease on premises 

 near Disley, Cheshire, necessitated the imposition of similar restrictions around 

 Disley. Subsequently, disease was confirmed on ten other premises in 

 Derbyshire, the latest of which was at Chapel-en-le-Frith on 7th June. 



In view of the circumstances attaching to this extension of disease, restric- 

 tions were imposed as a precautionary measure over a much wider district so 

 as to include the districts originally scheduled on account of the outbreaks at 

 Harthill antl Disle}^, and to comprise the whole of Derbyshire and Nottingham- 

 shire, and portions of Cheshire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, Leicestershire 

 and Staffordshire. 



Within this district, two prohibited areas were described, one of about 

 5 miles radius surrounding Harthill, and the other including the farms in 

 Cheshire and Derbyshire on which the remainder of the cases occurred, and to 

 which the movement of animals by a dealer involved in one of the outbreaks 

 had been definitely traced. In these two prohibited areas all movement of 

 stock was suspended, with the exception of cases of special urgency, provision 

 for which was made by the Inspectors of the Ministry. In the remainder of 

 the extended scheduled district, movement into the district for immediate 

 slaughter was permitted, as also the movement of animals within the district 

 in cases of necessity, all such movements being by licence of an Inspector of 



