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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture. — Annual Reports of Proceedings 

 under the Diseases of Animals Acts, the Markets and 

 Fairs [Weighing of Cattle) Acts, &c,, &c., for the year 

 1897. [C. 8796.] Price 2s. o\d. 



The report of the Chief Veterinary Officer of the Depart- 

 ment, Mr. A. C. Cope, which occupies the first part of 

 this volume, deals mainly with the history, etiology, 

 pathology, and morbid anatomy of pleuro-pneumonia, and 

 the various stages of this disease are illustrated by a series 

 of eight coloured drawings, taken from fresh specimens, 

 representing the appearances presented by the lesions of 

 pleuro-pneumonia in its early and progressive stages. 



The second part of the volume consists of the report of 

 the Assistant Secretary, Animals Division, Major J. T. 

 Tennant, on the work of the executive staff. The most 

 important duties — so far as the general public are con- 

 cerned — in which the Animals Division has been engaged 

 during the past year have been in connection with the 

 attempt which is being made to eradicate rabies in Great 

 Britain. A full account is given of the measures taken in 

 this direction under the Rabies Order of the 23rd March, 

 1897, whereby the muzzling of dogs now practically rests 

 with the Board of Agriculture. Diagram maps are 

 furnished showing the number of cases of rabies reported 

 in the counties of England and Wales in 1896 and 1897, 

 and the areas under muzzling orders in the latter year. 



The other subjects dealt with in this report relate to the 

 executive work undertaken in connection with swine fever, 

 pleuro-pneumonia, and sheep-scab ; the enforcement of the 



