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break is attributed. The ewes and lambs were moved to low- 

 lying pasture without effect. In this case two-thirds of the 

 lambs were affected, and out of a total of 570 no less than 234 

 died. In another part of the same county (Essex), a number of 

 sheep imported from Yorkshire, Perthshire, and Aberdeenshire 

 suffered from scour. Five per cent- were affected only, but none 

 recovered. In Worcestershire and South Shropshire, it was 

 found that lambs were not infrequently attacked by scour and 

 wasting about weaning time, the death-rate being about 2 or 3 

 per cent, among the lambs. 



The disease known by the various names of Navel-ill, Joint- 

 ill, or Big-joint, claimed many victims. In one part of Lincoln- 

 shire an outbreak was investigated by one of the Board's In- 

 spectors, and his report on the subject has been reproduced in 

 this Journal* The disease was reported from several other 

 districts in the same county, and in one case 50 lambs out of 

 250 were affected, of whom perhaps 10 per cent, recovered, but 

 were of little value. 



While it is not possible to state exactly what parts of the 

 country are most affected, or what disease is most prevalent, it 

 would seem that, so far as the returns go, disease is more preva- 

 lent in the Northern Counties. Louping-ill, Staggers, Black- 

 scour, Swingback, and Grass-ill are reported from Northumber- 

 land, the second disease occurring also in the West Riding and in 

 Lancashire. Fell sickness occurs in West Cumberland. Lincoln- 

 shire, especially in the north, has suffered severely from Navel- 

 ill ; Essex from Scour ; Kent and Sussex from Black-quarter and 

 Rheumatism. Northamptonshire has suffered from Gid, the 

 sheep being Cheviot or cross-bred Cheviots and Border Leicesters 

 imported from the North. Wind Gargate is reported from the 

 same district, but on the whole the Midlands seem to have been 

 free from disease, while the counties lying to the south of the 

 Midland Counties have been exceptionally favoured. Fluke is 

 reported from Dorset, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, 

 the North Riding of Yorkshire, and may possibly have existed 

 in other places. Foot-rot is said to occur in Cambridgeshire, 

 Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Mon- 



* Journal, Vol. XL, No. 2, p. HO. 



