xlii 
Monthly Council, March 5, 1890. 
Chemical. 
Viscount Emlyn presented the 
Quarterly Report of the Chemical 
Committee, which was adopted and 
ordered to be published (see p. 192.) 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chairman) pre- 
sented a report by the Society's Con- 
sulting Entomologist, which was 
ti'dered to be published. 1 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thokold (Chairman) 
reported that Professor Brown had 
presented the following report :— 
Pleuro - Pneumonia. —During 
the four weeks ending February 
22nd there were twenty- six fresh 
outbreaks of this disease reported 
in Great Britain. Fourteen of these 
were in England, in the counties of 
Bucks. Chester, Cumberland, Lan- 
caster, Middlesex, and York (West 
Biding) ; the twelve outbreaks in 
Scotland occurred in the counties of 
Aberdeen, Ayr, Edinburgh, Fife. 
Forfar, and Perth. The total num- 
ber of cattle attacked was 175, of 
which seventy-nine were in England 
and ninety-six in Scotland The 
number of healthy cattle slaugh- 
tered as having been exposed lo 
infection was 355, of which 128 were 
in England, and 227 in Scotland. 
In Ireland, during the lour weeks, 
ten fresh outbreaks of pleuro- 
pneumonia were reported— nine of 
them in North Dublin, and one in 
South Dublin; forty-two cattle were 
attacked, and 152 healthy cattle in 
contact with the disease were 
slaughtered. 
Anthrax. — In Great Britain 
there were seventeen fresh out- 
breaks of this disease reported in 
the four weeks. Sixteen of these 
occurred in England, in the counties 
of Devon, Durham, Lancaster, 
Leicester, Lincoln (Lindscy), Nor- 
folk, Northampton, Oxford, Somer- 
set, Sussex (East), York (North 
1 This report is embodied in the 
Report of the Consulting Entomolo- 
gist, printed on pages 170 to 181. 
Riding), and York (West Riding) ; 
the outbreak in Scotland took place 
in Forfarshire. The number of 
animals attacked with anthrax was 
twenty-six ; of these diseased 
animals, one was killed and twenty- 
five died. No fresh outbreak of 
anthrax occurred in Ireland during 
the four weeks, but two animals 
were attacked and died cn premises 
where the disease had previously 
existed. In three cases of out- 
breaks of anthrax in Northampton- 
shire and one in Somerset, Professor 
Penberthy, of the Royal Veterinary 
College, has carried out a system of 
protective inoculation. Altogether 
165 cattle were inoculated in 
Northamptonshire, and thirty-five in 
Somerset. At the present time only 
one case of death has been recorded 
in the inoculated herds, and in this 
instance inoculation of rabbits with 
the blood of the dead animal did 
not produce anthrax. The results 
arc altogether satisfactory as far as 
they go, but no definite conclusion 
can at present be drawn, because 
outbreaks of anthrax in this country 
commonly cease after the loss of 
one or two animals without the 
employment of any protective in- 
oculation for the remainder. 
Swine-Fever.— There were 201 
fresh outbreaks of swine-fever 
reported in Great Britain during 
the four weeks ; 937 swine were 
attacked, 454 diseased pigs were 
killed, 405 died, ninety-three re- 
covered, and 254 remained alive at 
the end of the week. In Ireland 
twenty fresh outbreaks were re- 
turned, and forty-six pigs were 
attacked. 
Rabies. — In England there were 
fourteen cases of rabies in dogs 
during the four weeks. They 
occurred in the counties o.f Chester, 
Hants, Leicester, London, Surrey, 
and York (W.R.). In Ireland there 
were fourteen cases of rabies, twelve 
in dogs, in the counties of Antrim, 
Carlow, Cork, Limerick, London- 
derry, Queen's Co., Roscommon, and 
Wicklow ; the other two cases were 
in cattle in co. Cork. 
Diseases in Cattle and Sheep 
in Derbyshire.— Mr. W. Aulton, 
district veterinary surgeon, reports 
that parturient apoplexy (dropping 
