Parliamentary Publications. 



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Ireland: Report of proceedings under the Diseases of Animals 

 Acts for the year 1900. [Cd. 662]. Price yd. 



No cases of Pleuro- Pneumonia or Foot-and-Mouth Disease 

 were reported during the year, and in the case of Swine 

 Fever there was a substantial diminution in the number of 

 outbreaks as compared with previous years. The number 

 recorded was 233 as against 321 in 1899. 



A further arid very decided decrease took place in the 

 number of Rabies outbreaks in Ireland, only 15 cases being 

 reported, whereas the number in 1899 was 92 and in the 

 preceding year 132. This decrease, it is observed, gives 

 ground for hope that the preventive measures taken will 

 result in a complete eradication of the disease at no verv 

 distant date. 



Only two outbreaks of anthrax occurred, the same number 

 as in each of the two preceding years. Glanders, of which 

 10 outbreaks were reported, was confined to Ulster. 



Sheep scab received a good deal of attention throughout 

 the year, and this disease was reported from 36 counties and 

 county boroughs, 545 outbreaks being recorded, an increase 

 of three on the previous year, and 7,144 animals were 

 attacked. It is, however, feared that these figures do not 

 indicate the full extent of the prevalence of the malady, as in 

 all probability many sheep-owners either through apathy or 

 wilful disregard of the obligations imposed on them, still 

 fail to notify the occurrence of cases of the disease among 

 their flocks. 



Judicial Statistics. — England and Wales, 1899. Part I. 

 {Cd. 659.] Price 2s. 3d. 



Statistics relating to various non-indictable offences tried 

 in Courts of Summary Jurisdiction are given in this publica- 

 tion, and among these offences it may be noted that proceed- 

 ings for offences under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 

 were taken against 3,527 persons in 1899, and in 2,923 cases 



