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the illness of these last-named animals was due to cattle plague which they 
must have in some way contracted during the time that they stood in Hull 
market on July the 29th. Owing to the paucity of stock in the Patrington 
district, the outbreak of cattle plague ceased with the destruction of the cattle 
belonging to Messrs. Alvin, Suddiby, and Wat.son. 
It has been already stated that on the same day, July the 29th, when Mr. 
Newcombe bought the cattle in Hull market which introduced cattle plague 
into the Patrington district, Mr. Taylor purchased the four heifers to which 
the outbreak of cattle plague at Bridlington may be fairly referred. These 
animals remained all night at Hull after Mr. Taylor had bought them, and 
on the following day, July the 30th, they were driven to Bridlington, and 
placed in a field adjoining his house, along with some other stock. On the 
8th of August three of the heifers were sold to a butcher at Bridlington, and 
were killed on tlie 9th. The remaining animal was kept until the I6th of 
the month, and then sold to Mr. Woodcock, butcher, at Bridlington Quay. Mr. 
Taylor asserts that he had no suspicion of the existence of cattle plague among 
his stock at this time, but he seems to have been under the impression that some 
of the animals were aifected with pleuro-pneumonia, and in consequence of the 
presence of this disease he was induced to get rid of them to the butcher. 
The following evidence in reference to Mr. Taylor's stock was obtained 
during the investigation that was carried on at Bridlington : — 
Adjoining the field in which the heifers purchased at Hull on July 29th 
were put, was a shed in which Mr. Taylor's short-horn heifer and short-horn 
bull were kept. The heifer was a pure bred animal, had been shown at 
various agricultural shows throughout the country, and had taken six first 
prizes. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that Mr. Taylor had no inten- 
tion of selling the animal for the purpose of slaughter. On the 26th of 
August, 10 days after the last of the four beasts bought at Hull was sent to 
the butcher, the heifer was observed to be unwell; and on the 28th, Mr. 
Taylor, anticipating, as he states, the presence of lung disease, sold this 
animal to a butcher at Bridlington, by whom it is believed it was slaughtered 
immediately. On the 2nd of September the bull which was kept in the same 
shed, which was partly divided by a wall, was attacked with illness, and 
within 48 hours this animal died, on Wednesday, September the 4th. It 
has already been stated that two cows which were sent to this animal on 
August the 31st were attacked with cattle plague in the course of eight days 
afterwards. 
The evidence of the introduction of cattle plague among Mr. Taylor's stock 
by the agency of the four heifers which he purchased in Hull market on 
July the 2l9th is obviously not conclu.sive ; but it is a reasonable assumption, 
based on the history of the outbreak at Patrington, that plague-infected 
animals stood in Hull market on that day, and it is a matter of fact that two 
lots of cattle which stood in that market were taken to premises on which 
cattle plague subsequently appeared. It is not known that either of the four 
heifers which Mr. 1'aylor purchased on July the 29th were afflicted with any 
illness while they were in his possession ; but it is known that they were all 
slaughtered, and that a serious disease appeared among his own stock about 
that time. In the case of Mr. Newcombe, it is in evidence that the animals 
were attacked with illness which rendered their immediate slaughter expe- 
dient, in one case eleven days, and in the other nineteen days after their 
arrival at Patrington. Assuming that only one of these animals was 
, infected with cattle plague when Mr. Newcombe purchased it, it is easy 
to understand that symptoms likely to attract attention might not be mani- 
fested until the expiration of nine or ten days from the time of its infection. 
The communication of the infection to the other animal may very well be 
dated back to the time when the first one manifested signs of the disease. 
