o5G Report on the Health of Animals of the Farm. 
tlic Show-yard and removed, and on the breaking up of the 
Show some of the other animals were sent to the exhibition at 
Newcastle, taking the disease with them. 
At the date of this report, February 10th, the malady prevails 
to a very serious extent in the county of Norfolk, many thou- 
sands of cattle and sheep being affected. The virulence of the 
disease is shown by the circumstance that large numbers of 
sheep arc attacked a second time, soon after their recovery 
from the first attack, and that vesicles are developed in the 
mouth as well as the feet of the animals, a symptom rarely 
observed in sheep. 
Foot-and-mouth disease is also widely spread on the Continent, 
and during the past month of January upwards of 1600 diseased 
animals were landed at the various ports. The countries chiefly 
infected are Germany, Belgium, and France ; cases also exist in 
the Netherlands. In France the sheep are suffering as well as 
the cattle, and apparently as severely as in the county of Norfolk. 
Imported cattle from France are found to be chiefly affected in 
tlieir feet ; but it is remarkable that many which come from 
(Jermany are so severely affected in the mouth as to present 
local si/mptoms not very dissimilar to those of the cattle-plague. 
With reference to foreign importations, it may also be observed 
that during last year a greater number of cattle arrived from 
Schleswig-Holstein than for some time past, and not one case of 
foot-and-mouth disease was detected among them, although other 
parts of the German Empire are known to have been not entirely 
free from the malady. 
It is likewise a singular fact that no case of foot-and-mouth 
disease has been detected among the cattle landed from Ireland, 
which have to a certain extent been inspected during the last 
six months at the several ports at which they arrive. 
Typhoid Fever in Pigs. 
In connexion with the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, and 
its rapid spread in its epizootic form, one other contagious malady 
requires to be noticed in this report, namely, typhoid fever in 
pigs. This affection likewise manifested itself at the latter part 
of November. My fu st information of its existence came from 
Somersetshire, and within a few days of this, the carcass of a 
pig was forwarded from Leicestershire, which, on examination, 
showed that the animal had been the subject of typhoid fever. 
Since then numerous cases of the disease have occurred in the 
(irst-named county ; but up to the present time I have not heard 
of the spread of the malady elsewhere. 
Typhoid fever ranks among the most contagious and fatal 
