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the defined part itself as a whole. Besides the danger arising- 
from cattle rushing up a wrong turning, and so into the midst of a 
lot of English beasts, there is the greater danger arising from the 
drovers and dealers themselves going direct from a lot of foreign 
animals into the English cattle-market, not much more than 
100 yards off. Many people are of opinion that in this way the 
cattle-plague virus was taken direct from the ' Joseph Soames ' 
into the market in Edward's Place. It will be remembered that 
there were altogether eight importations of cattle affected with 
Rinderpest,* namely, two each into Deptford, Hartlepool, and 
Newcastle, and one each into Leith and Hull. Shortly after- 
wards cattle-plague broke out in the East Riding of Yorkshire ; 
and this result was attributed by some to the cause already indi- 
cated, and by others to the washing on shore of the diseased car- 
cases, Avhich had been apparently sunk in a lighter, by order of the 
Government inspectors. Probably the Report of the Veterinary 
Department for last year will eventually clear up this matter ;t 
but in the meantime it may be observed that Professor Simonds 
has stated J that, so far as the investigation had then gone 
[August, 1872], the outbreak of cattle-plague " in no way 
depended on the washing ashore of the carcases of the animals 
which ought to have been sunk off the mouth of the Humber." 
Should this inference be confirmed, the Privy Council should, 
in the public interest, either extend the limits of the defined 
part of the port, so as to include the existing cattle-market 
within them, or they should remove the "defined part " to a 
distant part of the port, or they should remove Hull from the list 
of ports at which animals from scheduled countries could be 
landed. If the first step were taken, the Corporation of Hull 
would be compelled to provide a new cattle-market, available 
sites for which (such as Fair Field) are not wanting in suitable 
situations ; but at present it is not too much to say that the limits 
and position of the defined part of the port are regulated by the 
situation of private slaughter-houses, without regard to the 
dangerous proximity of the ordinary cattle-market. 
Harivich. — This port is little more than a resting-place and 
* See 'Journal of tlie Eoyal Agricultural Society,' 2iid series, vol. viii., part 2, 
No. 16, pp. 367-373. 
t In order to do this satisfactorily, the Report should describe the manner in 
which the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 01 of the Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act (relating to the disinfection of persons having come in 
contact with animals aflected with cattle-plague) were carried out by tlie Hull 
authorities on the persons of the veterinary inspectors, police, sailors, drovers, 
and others who came in contact with the plague-stricken animals (or thoir 
excreta) forming part of the cargo of the ' Joseph Soames.' 
I Loc. cit., p. 373. 
