1908.] FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 



rose from 916,450 in 1906 to 1,355,790 in 1907, and 15,673 

 individual applications were received as compared with 13,535 

 in the previous year. Twenty-two new leaflets were issued. 

 The sale of the bound set of the first 100 leaflets continued 

 steadily all through the year and 2,733 were sold, as compared 

 with 3,062 in 1907. The sectional volumes continued also to 

 be in demand and 20,732 were sold as compared with 28,721 

 in 1906. The falling off in both cases was due not so much to 

 the slackening demand for the books, as to the fact that 

 towards the end of the year the bound set of leaflets 1-100 and 

 some of the sectional volumes were sold out. 



On 1 6th November the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries- 

 received a cable message from the British Consul at Phila- 

 delphia reporting that an outbreak of 



Foot-and-Mouth Foot-and-Mouth Disease had occurred 

 Disease in near Danville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The 



the United States. Board at once notified their Port Inspec- 

 tors and warned them to take special care in 

 the veterinary examination of animals imported from the United 

 States of America and Canada. It was not till the 18th November 

 that the existence of the disease was officially confirmed, when the 

 Board at once made and issued Orders scheduling the State of 

 Pennsylvania under the Foreign Animals Order of 1903 and the- 

 Foreign Hay and Straw Order of 1908. Special arrangements 

 were at the same time made for dealing with cargoes of animals 

 that had left Pennsylvania previous to the Orders operating. 

 Subsequent information received by the Board caused them to 

 make Orders affecting the States of New Jersey, New York, 

 Maryland, and Delaware, similar to those issued in the case of 

 Pennsylvania. On 28th November the Board made an Order 

 requiring the veterinary examination, on board the vessel prior 

 to landing at the Foreign Animals Wharf, of cargoes of animals 

 carried to this country from the United States of America. 



The effect of the Board's Orders is to prohibit the landing, 

 of animals brought from the scheduled States ; and also the 

 landing of hay and straw from those States, except such as. 

 comes under the provisions of Article 2 of the Foreign Hay and 

 Straw Order. The ports at which animals are usually shipped 

 to which the above Orders apply are Philadelphia, New York v 

 and Baltimore. 



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