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FoOT-AND-MoUTH DiSEASE. 



[Apr., 1921. 



presence of considerable quantities of fish meal in a patent pig 

 meal .fed to the pigs. The Ministry wishes to call the atten- 

 tion of manufacturers to the danger of putting large quantities 

 of fish meal into meals or cakes; " white fish meal " only 

 should be used for this purpose, and the quantity fed should 

 not exceed one-eighth by dry weight of the total meal. In all 

 such cases, when a meal contains fish meal, it is advisable to 

 state the proportion by weight of fish meal present to obviate 

 the danger of the pig feeder using fish meal in excess by feeding 

 fish meal in conjunction with such pig meals. 



The danger of taint from such sources is a real one, and 

 misuse of fish meal is liable to discredit the value of fish meal 

 as a feeding stuff. It is obvious that the retail meat trade will 

 take as strong action as possible to avoid losses in the future 

 from such a source if such cases occur in any frequencv. 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease. — Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, the Mid- 

 land Counties Group ^ and Lincolnshire ( Ormsb// and Grimsby Districts \ — All 

 restrictions imposed in connection with the outbreaks in these districts have 

 now been withdrawn. 



Yorkshire (East Riding). — Six outbreaks, in all, have been confirmed in the 

 Halsham district, the most recent being on the 1st March on premises in close 

 proximity to those concerned in earlier outbreaks. The restrictions on 

 movement are applicable only to ten parishes, in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Halsham. and the parish of Hollym alone remains a prohibited area, that 

 is, an area in which movement is entirely prohibited except by licence. 



Rabies. — Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire. — One further case of Rabies 

 has occurred in this district since the issue of the March Journal, namely, on 

 the 12th March at Southampton. 



The limits of the Inner Controlled Area around Salisbury have been 

 contracted by the issue of an Order which operated on the 15th February. 

 That Area now includes only the Borough of Salisbury and 7 parishes 

 immediately surrounding the Borough. 



Glamorgan. — No further outbreak has occurred in this district. 



Berkshire District. — A case was confirmed at High Wycombe on the fiist 

 of March in a puppy which died and was buried early in January. 



London. — The suspected case of Rabies in the Borough of Woolwich having 

 been found, as the result of inoculation experiments, not to be one of 

 Rabies, the restrictions on the movement of dogs out of a portion of that 

 Borough were withdrawn as from the 4th March. No further outbreak of Rabies 

 having occurred in ihe Acton District since that which necessitated the 

 imposition of restrictions on the 8tli December last, the requirement of leading 

 was, therefore, withdrawn as from the 4th March. 



Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Statio2«ery Office, 

 By Metchim & Son, Princes Street, Westminster, S.W.I. 



