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there is comparatively little foot-and-mouth disease in the Cork 
district. The trade with Cardiff is said to be principally irj 
the hands of small jobbers at Cork, who drive their stock twenty 
or thirty miles to the port, instead of sending them by rail, and 
thus avoid the danger of infection in the railway-trucks. 
The landing-place at Cardiff is, very much like that at Bristol, 
on a small scale. It is furnished with a good water-trough, but 
no lairs or pens, and is in other respects a miniature representa- 
tion of Bristol, After having been landed and watered, the cattle 
are driven to the premises of the consignee or to a slaughter-house 
in the town. 
There is no cattle-market in the town of Cardiff, as the Canton 
Market Company (Canton being a suburb of Cardiff) have the 
monopoly of the trade in horned stock. There is, however, a 
market for sheep and pigs in the town, and adjoining it is a 
slaughter-house, as well as a receiving-house for cattle intended 
for slaughter in the adjoining building. In the event of a 
beast being sent to the receiving-house and taken away again 
instead of being slaughtered, the owner has to pay a small fee. 
Thus the receiving-house may be made a kind of repository or 
market ; and I was informed that a large number of cattle were 
bought and sold privately in this manner. As none of these 
premises appeared to be properly cleansed and disinfected, I 
inferred that a certain proportion of the foot-and-mouth disease 
in South Wales might be traced to this source. 
On inquiry, the inspector of the local authority informed 
me that pigs are sometimes kept in this market for a fortnight 
or more before being killed, and that a great number, if not 
affected when brought to the market, develop foot-and-mouth 
disease before they leave it. As store sheep and pigs are brought 
to the same market every Saturday, they may take the disease 
with them, and spread it all about the country. On his repre- 
sentation of these facts to the Cattle Plague Committee of the 
Corporation, they ordered hose to be supplied, so that the whole 
of the market-place should be washed out after every market- 
day, and afterwards disinfected with either carbolic acid or 
chloralum. I could not ascertain, however, that this was 
regularly done ; and, in my opinion, such things rarely will be 
done, unless they are rendered compulsory on the part of the 
local authorities, and unless the Government send a qualified 
inspector, from time to time, to see that the regulations are pro- 
perly carried out in the different market-towns of the country. 
The cattle-market at Canton is situated outside the jurisdiction 
of the corporation of Cardiff. Except at fair times, it is evi- 
dently far too large for the requirements of the district, being 
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