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Ireland: Report of Proceedings tinder the Diseases of Animals 

 Acts for the year 1901. [Cd. 11 26.] Price A,\d. 



During the year 1901 Ireland again enjoyed complete 

 immunity from pleuro-pneumonia and foot-and-mouth disease. 

 As in each of the three preceding years, only two outbreaks of 

 anthrax occurred, while the number of outbreaks of glanders 

 was 5, as against 10 reported in 1900. 



The measures which are being taken for stamping out rabies 

 seem to have met with considerable success, for only two cases 

 were reported during the year, as compared with 15 in 1900, 92 

 in 1899, and 132 in 1898. 



The number of outbreaks of sheep-scab was 545, exactly the 

 same total as that for 1900. The outbreaks of swine fever in 

 1 90 1 numbered 220, or 13 less than in 1900, but it should be 

 noted that the figures for the latter year showed a marked 

 falling off from the totals recorded for previous years. 



Outbreaks of parasitic mange reached a total of 174, or 66 in 

 excess of the figures for 1900. It is not, however, believed that 

 this increase is due to any real extension of the disease, but 

 merely to the fact that more cases have been brought to light. 



fudicial Statistics, E?igland and Wales, 1900, Part L [Cd. 953.] 



Price is. 6d. 



This publication contains statistics relating to criminal pro- 

 ceedings for 1900. The cases dealt with in Courts of Summary 

 Jurisdiction during the year included 3,545 prosecutions for 

 offences against the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, as compared 

 with 3,527 cases in 1899. Fines were imposed in 2,808 instances, 

 while in one case a sentence of imprisonment was inflicted. 

 Appeals were made to Quarter Sessions against five of these 

 convictions, but in each case the judgment was confirmed, 

 subject, however, in one instance, to a special case being taken. 

 The number of cases of this character tried in London, viz., 1,079= 

 was larger than that in any other county, Lancashire coming 

 next with 356, and then Yorks, West Riding, with 215 cases. 



