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FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 



at the temporary offices, 10, Whitehall Place, London, 

 S.W.I. The report was submitted in February last to the 

 Potato Industry Conference recently instituted by the National 

 Institute of Agricultural Botany. This Conference represents the 

 Ministry of Agriculture, the Institute of Agricultural Botany, 

 agricultural and trade associations and the leading growers and 

 merchants. All approved the Keport and recommended its 

 publication. 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease. — Yorkshire (E. Riding). — Xo outbreak has 

 occurred in this district since that confirmed on the 1st March last, referred to 

 in the March issue of the Journal, and all restrictions have been withdrawn. 



Derbyshire. — The existence of Foot-and-Mouth Disease on premises at 

 Draycott, Derbyshire, was confirmed on Sunday, the 27th March, in four out of 

 nine Irish heifers consigned from County Limerick, which had been landed at 

 Holyhead via Dublin on the 23rd March. Apparently no symptoms of the 

 disease appeared until the 25th March, when the Veterinary Inspector of the 

 Local Authority examined these animals on arrival at Draycott, in accordance 

 with the provisions of the Order of the Ministry under which the animals were 

 landed from Ireland. 



In view of the fact that the origin of the disease was definitely established, 

 it was not considered necessary to impose restrictions over an area with the 

 usual 15 miles radius, but to limit the district to one with a radius of about 

 5 miles around Draycott. 



Birkenhead and Holt/head Irish Animals Landing Places. — The existence 

 of Foot-and-Mouth Disease was also confirmed in Irish animals detained at 

 Birkenhead Landing Place on the 29th March, and at Holyhead Landing Place 

 on the 2nd April. These animals were under detention as a result of the 

 existence of disease being confirmed in the Irish animals at Draycott. 



The landing of animals'in Great Britain from Ireland was entirely prohibited 

 on the 28th March, and special steps were taken to trace all animals which 

 might have been exposed to infection by reason of contact with the animals 

 concerned in these three outbreaks, and at the time of going to press no further 

 outbreak had been confirmed in any part of Great Britain. 



Norfolk. — The existence of Foot-and-Mouth Disease w T as confirmed on the 

 9th April on premises at North Runcton, Kings Lynn. 



Chester. — On the 16th April, the presence of the disease was also confirmed 

 ■on premises at Bebbington, near Birkenhead. 



In the former case, restrictions were imposed over the usual radius of 15 

 miles from the infected premises, but in the latter, which occurred in the 

 Wirral Peninsula, the estuaries of the Rivers Dee and Mersey afforded effective 

 natural boundaries, and it was not considered necessary to include all the 

 country within the radius of 15 miles which lies beyond these rivers. 



Rabies. — Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire. — Two further outbreaks of 

 Rabies have occurred in this district since the April issue of the Journal, viz., 

 on the 23rd March at Southampton and 4th April at Farley-Chamberlayne, near 

 Romsey. No alteration has been necessary in the limits of the existing 

 muzzling area on account of these cases. 



