The Outbreak of Cattle-Plague. 
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" The District Inspector, being informed by a dairyman of 
the existence of a rapidly spreading disease among his cows, 
found, on visiting the place, that a number of them were suffer- 
ing from cattle-plague, and communicated the fact to the 
Veterinary Department of the Privy Council. The whole of 
the animals were at once slaughtered, and the destruction of the 
carcasses commenced. 
"An Order in Council was issued, and came into operation 
on February 1st, prohibiting the movement from the metropolis 
of cattle, sheep, and goats. A circular letter was also sent 
advising the local authorities of the fact, at the same time 
recommending that none but the most efficient inspectors be 
•employed at the present crisis. 
" The supplement to the ' London Gazette ' of Friday, 
February 2nd, contained a further Order in Council, to take 
effect on the 4th, prohibiting the holding of all markets or sales 
of cattle, sheep, and goats within the metropolis, except as 
follows : — 
"1. ' Cattle, sheep, or goats belonging to the owner or oc- 
cupier of premises not in an infected place may be sold on those 
premises if they are not affected with cattle-plague, and have 
been on those premises not less than twenty-eight days previous 
to sale. 
" 2. ' Markets and sales may be held under the license of the 
Privy Council.' 
" The Order also enjoins that cattle, sheep, or goats exposed 
for sale in a market, the holding of which for the sale of cattle, 
sheep, and goats for immediate slaughter is licensed by the 
Privy Council, may be kept alive for a period of ten days, and 
no longer, and that the owner, consignee, or other person 
exposing in a licensed market cattle, sheep, or goats shall, at 
his own expense, mark them as follows : — Cattle, by clipping 
the hair off at the end of the tail, and by clipping a broad 
arrow, about five inches long, on the left quarter. Sheep and 
goats, by clipping a broad arrow on the forehead. 
u Up to the evening of February 5th, the disease had appeared 
in five dairies in the Limehouse district, but no cases had 
appeared in the Metropolitan Cattle Market." 
Professor Brown also stated that, on January 16th, thirty- 
nine animals had arrived from Hamburg in the 'Castor,' 
and were landed at the Deptford foreign cattle market, a place 
which was particularly adapted for its purpose, viz., for the 
reception and slaughter, within its limits, of cattle arriving from 
scheduled foreign countries. No difficulty was experienced 
there in dealing with these cattle. Those that did not die with 
the disease were killed, and all the carcasses were put in iron 
