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Report on the Contagious and 
The extension of the cattle pla<;ue to Pocklington district was clearly the 
result of the sending of cattle which had been on Mr. Taylor's premises to 
Hunmanby market. There can be no reasonable doubt that the disease did 
exist on Mr. Taylor's premises prior to August the 19th, and it is a matter of 
fact that cattle which had been on his premises for some time were sent to 
that market along with others which had come from a farm where no disease 
existed, and that these animals were purchased by Mr. Berryman, taken 
to Pocklington, and lastly to Yapham, where they remained until the cattle 
plague appeared among them, about a week afterwards, one of the animals 
(known by the scissor mark) which had been sent from Mr. Taylor's farm 
being among the first attacked. It fortunately happened that all the cattle 
which were sold at Hull market on July the 29th, excepting those bought by 
Mr. Taylor, were sold to butchers, the majority of whom resided in Hull. 
It is therefore not necessary to pursue the inquiry in respect of the destina- 
tion of the animals sold in the market on that day any further. 
From Mr. Taylor's premises the disease spread by direct contact with a 
diseased animal to two farms in the neighbourhood. On the 3lst of August, 
two days before the bull was discovered to be ill, Mr. Robinson, of Sewerby, 
and the steward of the Rev. Yarborough Lloyd Graeme, Sewerby House, 
each sent a cow to Mr. Taylor's bull. In the case of Mr. Robinson's cow, the 
animal, which was herded with seven cows and two calves, was seen to be 
unwell on Friday, September the 6th, and was accordingly at once removed 
from the pasture, and placed in a shed. On Sunday morning the animal was 
turned out for an hour in a field in which four yearlings were grazing. All 
these animals escaped the infection notwithstanding that when I saw the 
cow on Monday, September the 9th, all the symptoms of cattle plague were 
well marked. 
The cow belonging to the Rev. Y. L. Graeme was seen by me also on 
September the 9th, and was found to be affected with the disease. This 
animal at the time it was taken ill was herded with six cows and four calves. 
Between twenty and thirty cattle which were on the same farm need not 
be further referred to, as they were in a pasture so remote from that in 
which the cow was placed as to remove them from all risk of direct infection. 
The disease on the Rev. Mr. Graeme's farm extended first to the calves, some 
of which had received the milk of the cow first attacked, up to the time that 
she was taken ill. On September the 11th the first calf was found to be 
suffering from the disease. This animal was slaughtered and buried imme- 
diately, together with one which had been herded with it. On September 
the 14th another calf was attacked, and was slaughtered and buried, together 
with one which had been herded with it. On September the 19th the disease 
extended to the cows, one animal together with a calf gave evidence of being 
aflected, and they were accordingly killed and buried. On September the 
23rd, in order to arrest the further progress of the infection, all animals 
which had either been herded with diseased ones or had been within probaile 
reach of infection were slaughtered and buried. The animals thus disposed 
of included four cows, three steers, and one heifer. The remainder of Mr. 
Graeme's stock, which were kept at a distance, altogether escaped the 
disease. 
The sudden cessation of the cattle plague on Mr. Robinson's farm after the 
slaughter of the one diseased cow was an unusual circumstance, although 
not an unprecedented one. It happened on many occasions during the 
progress of the cattle plague from 18G5 to 1867, that the immediate separa- 
tion of the diseased from the healthy was attended with the arrestation of 
the plai;ue ; and the matter would hardly have been a subject fur comment if 
Mr. Robinson, when he had removed the sick cow from the rest of the herd, 
had kept the animal jiroperly isolated, instead of which he placed her, while 
