Ixxxvi 
Monthly Council, June 4, 1890. 
diseased swine were killed, 1,037 
died, 157 recovered, and 414 re- 
mained alive when the return was 
made up. In Ireland thirty out- 
breaks of swine fever were reported 
in the four weeks, and ninety-four 
pigs were attacked. 
Rabies. — In England there were 
ten cases of this disease reported, 
one in Derby, three in Hants, one 
in Surrey, and five in York (W.R.). 
In Ireland there were thirty-one 
cases of rabies returned, twenty in 
dogs, seven in cattle, two sheep, 
one pig, and one goat. 
Letters had been read from the 
Worshipful Company of Farriers for- 
warding a resolution of thanks for 
the Society's promised contribution of 
50£. annually for three years, towards 
carrying out the objects of the scheme 
for the examination and registration 
of farriers or shoeing smiths, and re- 
porting that the sum of 1,300?. had 
up to the present time been sub- 
scribed towards the probable expenses 
of working the scheme. Conse- 
quently the conditions mentioned in 
the report of the sub-committee (viz. 
that at least 1.000Z. shall have been 
collected before commencement of 
registration) had been fulfilled. The 
Committee therefore recommended 
that the following six representatives 
of the Society be appointed to serve 
upon the General Registration Com- 
mittee, in accordance with the pro- 
visions of the scheme : — The Presi- 
dent of the Society for the time being, 
the Chairman of the Veterinary Com- 
mittee for the time being, Mr. Charles 
Clay, Mr. Walter Gilbey, Sir Jacob 
Wilson, and the Secretary. The Se- 
cretary had reported correspondence 
with the veterinary authorities of 
Dublin Castle as to the necessity of 
permits issued by them for the return 
to Ireland of cattle exhibited at Ply- 
mouth, and as to the furnishing of cer- 
tificates to the effect that such cattle 
are free from disease at the closing 
of the show. The Committee reported 
the death of Mr. Hugh Jones, of Llan- 
gefni, the Society's Provincial Veteri- 
nary Surgeon for the county of Angle- 
sey, and they recommended that Mr. 
Owen Thomas, of Tycoch, Llanerchy- 
medd, be appointed in his stead. 
Mr. Dent observed that, with 
reference to the cases of anthrax 
reported, Professor Brown believed 
many of the cases were not anthrax ■ 
because the Professor did not consider 
that forty-seven would have recovered, 
as stated. It would probably, there- 
fore, be some other disease reported 
as anthrax. With reference to pleuro- 
pneumonia, the return was exceed- 
ingly unsatisfactory. The county of 
Cumberland appeared to have become 
a sort of sink of infection ; and the 
disease had spread from there, to 
many other places. 
Mr. Fosteb said that the great 
trouble they had to contend against 
in Cumberland was to find out the 
disease, the existence of which was 
concealed. They believed the disease 
had existed in several places for the 
last twelve or eighteen months, but 
they had to prove that it was there 
before they were able to deal with it. 
Earl Spencer said that, as they 
had heard what had been said about 
Cumberland, he wished to state the 
difficulties which they experienced in 
the county of Northampton. One 
difficulty was in the endeavour to 
trace the source of the disease. They 
found that in that county the disease 
almost invariably broke out amongst 
cows or heifers, and he believed — they 
could not actually prove it, but they 
had considerable evidence to show — 
that the disease almost always arose 
from what were called shed cattle. 
It was an exceedingly difficult matter 
to trace the disease. They found that 
the dealers absolutely refused to give 
any evidence whatever as to where 
they got their cows. The difficulty, 
therefore, of any attempt to stop this 
trade in shed cows was immense. 
How this was to be done was a very 
grave question, and he would like to 
have heard the opinion on the subject 
of some of the experienced gentlemen 
who sat in that room. In Ireland, in 
the Dublin dairies, and in Scotland, in 
the Edinburgh dairies, he used to 
hear the same thing as to the exceed- 
ing difficulty of this question. They 
might have better inspection of dairy 
sheds in the towns, not only with 
regard to the sanitary condition of 
the dairies, because that, he imagined, 
was really now the object of inspec- 
tion, but also with regard to the 
movement of the animals. Whether 
this should be included in the new 
