222 Report on the Trade in Animals. 
for 1871 (p. 27) enables me to answer this question with pre- 
cision as follows : — 
'J'able IX. — XuMBEK of Imported Animals found affected with Foot-and- 
Mouth Disease in 1871. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Pigs. 
Total. 
Percentage 
of 
Importations. 
Scheduled Countries : — 
183 
183 
•171 
88 
62 
69 
210 
•036 
UXSCHEDI'LED COUNTRIES :— 
292 
.. 
292 
1^4 
201 
201 
•98 
4 
4 
•0009* 
Table X. — Xdjiber of Imported Sheep found affected with Scah in 1S71. 
Number 
of 
Sheep. 
Percentage of those Imported. 
ScHEDULFD Countries : — 
343 
•328, or about 3^ per 1000 
2642 
•538, or about 5i per 1000 
Unscheduled Countries : — 
10 
•003, or about 3 per 100,000 
2 
In addition to the foregoing, 1 German and 5 Dutch boasts 
were discovered to be affected Avith pleuro-pneumonia during the 
year 1871. 
The figures relating to Holland prove that it is quite possible 
to render inspection efficient. If the same high standard of 
efficiency is not always maintained in a country, it must be 
owing to a laxity on the part of the authorities, such as is not 
unfrequently bred by immediate success. However, the monthly 
reports published by the Veterinary Department during 1872, 
stating the number of foreign animals brought by sea to ports in 
Great Britain, which by inspection on landing were found to 
be affected with a contagious or infectious disease, show that 
during the wholi; of the year Holland sent us 181 cattle, 18 sheep, 
and 40 pigs affected with foot-and-mouth disease, 1 beast with 
» Not quite one in 100,000. 
