Infectious Diseases of Animals. 
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suffering from the disease, wliicli must at tliat time have been well developed, 
in the pasture which contained the four yearlings previously referred to. The 
escape of these animals can only be explained on the assumption that the 
cow had remained, during the short time she was in the field, in a corner by 
herself, a very probable thing to occur under the circumstances, and that 
consequently there was no contact between the sick animal and the healthy 
ones. 
Another outbreak of cattle plague had occurred previously to my arrival, 
among cattle belonging to Mr. Gibson. On September the 8th I inspected 
the herd of fifteen animals, and found the majority of them suffering from 
the plague, some of them having the disease in its last stage. I ascertained 
that these animals had been placed in the pasture. Colonel Prickett's field, 
in which they were when I saw them, on the previous Sunday, September 
the 1st. One heifer of the herd, which then numbered sixteen, was ill. This 
animal died on the following Tuesday, and was buried in the field. It is 
not known whether at that time others of the herd presented synifitoms of 
illness, but it can scarcely be doubted that the infection had already made 
some progress, as the majority of the herd were affected by the end of the 
week. Mr. Gibson's cattle had previously to September the 1st been pastured 
in a field at Bridlington Quay, and any communication between these cattle 
and the diseased beasts on Mr. Taylor's farm must necessai-ily have been 
indirect. On September the 9th the remaining fifteen cattle belonging to 
Mr. Gibson were slaughtered and buried in the field. 
On September the 12th I inspected six cows belonging to Mrs. Edmonds, 
and found one of the animals suffering severely from cattle plague. This 
animal was immediately shot. No difficulty attended the tracing of the 
origin of this outbreak, as the cows had been pastured in a field adjoining that 
iu which Mr. Gibson's animals were put ou Sunday, September the 1st. No 
further steps were taken in reference to the remainder of Mrs. Edmonds's 
cows until the occurrence of another case of cattle plague among them on 
September the 17th, when it was decided to slaughter and bury all the animals 
in the field. 
On September the 17th, exactly eight days after the destruction of Mr. 
Gibson's herd, the disease was found to have extended to a herd in another 
field adjoining that in which his cattle had stood. One cow, belonging to 
Mr. Franks, was seen by me on that day suffering from cattle plague in a 
well developed form. The animal when first observed was standing in a 
part of the pasture remote from the other six cows with which it had been 
herded. The sick beast was immediately killed and buried. The remaining 
animals altogether escaped. 
On September the 26th a beast belonging to Mr. Frost was found dead of 
cattle i^lague in a field at Bridhngton Quay, near to the one in which Mr. 
Gibson's cows had been jjastured previously to their removal on September 
the 1st, on which day some of them were certainly infected with cattle 
plague. The date of the origin of the disease among Mr. Frost's stock is 
quite uncertain. As no notice was given of the existence of any malady 
among them, it is not known whether or not the owner of the animals had 
disposed of other infected animals previously to the discovery of the one 
which had died of the disease. Four cattle which were in the field with the 
dead beast were immediately slaughtered, and the rest of Mr. Frost's healthy 
stock was disposed of, for slaughter, with as little delay as possible. 
The last case of cattle plague which occurred at Bridlington was that of a 
cow belonging to Mr. Eodgers. The animal was pastured in a field by itself, 
next but one to that in which Frost's animals had stood. This cow was 
slaughtered on September the 29th. 
In the Pocklington district, where the cattle population is very numerous, 
