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restrictions on the movement of stock, which at first had been 

 confined to the counties of Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire 

 and parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, were extended to 

 the whole of the North of England from the Scottish border to 

 Staffordshire. 



On 31st January disease was confirmed at Glasgow and at 

 Gorgie market, Edinburgh. It appeared that the animals con- 

 cerned in the Glasgow outbreak had passed through Glasgow 

 market on 25th January. The Ministry thereupon as a pre- 

 cautionary measure applied control of movement over the whole 

 of Scotland south of a line from Aberdeen to Dumbarton, and 

 the wisdom of this step was proved by the subsequent outbreaks 

 in the counties of Lanark, Renfrew, Stirling, Forfar, Perth, 

 Dumbarton, Fife, Berwick and Dumfries. It was hoped that the 

 above areas would include all centres to which the disease might 

 have spread from the markets. This unhappily proved not to 

 be the case, as on 2nd February disease appeared at Biggleswade 

 in Bedfordshire, around which an area was at once scheduled, on 

 4th February at Rochford (Essex), and in Denbighshire, outside 

 the north of England area. On Sunday morning, 5th February, 

 disease was also confirmed in Norwich cattle market. 



The position at Norwich market was specially difficult as 

 several hi ndred animals were detained at the market at the 

 time the disease was confirmed, and arrangements had to be 

 made for the disposal of these as far as possible for slaughter 

 locally. Others, for which no slaughtering accommodation was 

 available, were licensed under special precautionary conditions 

 direct to slaughterhouses in other towns. 20 trucks of cattle 

 which were on their way south were held up at Chelmsford and 

 dealt with there. 



It was clear that there were other centres of which the Ministry 

 was not yet aware, and after careful consideration it was decided 

 on Sunday morning, 5th February, to place the whole of Great 

 Britain under control of movement of animals by licence, and to 

 prohibit the holding of markets of livestock except for immediate 

 slaughter so that the meat supply should be maintained. The 

 Order issued on that date divided Great Britain into five separate 

 Scheduled Districts, namely :— (1) The N.-W. of Scotland; (2) 

 the S.-E. of Scotland; (3) *he N. of England; (4) the S.-E. of 

 England: (5) the S.-W. of England, and Wales. 



All movement, of cattle, sheep, pigs or goats within these dis- 

 tricts was prohibited except for necessary purposes and then by 

 licence of the Local Authority Inspectors. The Order also pro- 

 hibited movement from one of these Scheduled Areas to another, 



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