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Report to the General Meeting, 
register of the Farriers' Company. A vacancy on the Committee 
caused by the resignation by Mr. Walter Gilbey has been filled by 
the election of Col. Sir Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B. 
23. The Council have appointed Mr. D. M. Storrar, F.R.C.V.S., 
of Abergavenny, as the Society's Provincial Veterinary Surgeon for 
Monmouthshire, in succession to Mr. G. Lewis, of Monmouth, 
resigned. 
24. It is satisfactory to find that the strenuous and sustained, 
efforts of the Board of Agriculture to stamp out pleuro-pneumonia 
in this country appear to be now meeting with considerable success. 
The number of outbreaks, which in the preceding year reached 499, 
fell to 29-5 in 1891. In the outbreaks which occurred in the course 
of the current year, 1,188 cattle were slaughtered while affected 
with pleuro-pneumonia. But in addition to these, the plan adopted 
by the Board of slaughtering all cattle which had been in contact 
Avitli the disease or had been in any manner exposed to the risk of 
infection necessitated the slaughter of a total of 14,322 cattle, 
including those (1,188) which were affected. 
25. Swine-fever began to increase rather rapidly about the end 
of March, tlie maximum being reached soon after the middle of 
May, since which the disease has decreased. At their meeting 
held on June 3 last, the Council passed a resolution requesting the 
earnest attention of the Board of Agriculture to the urgent neces- 
sity of adopting more stringent measures to mitigate the severity 
of this disease. 
26. There has been a slight increase in the number of outbreaks 
of iinthi-ax this year as compared with last ; but it is satisfactory 
to note that the area over which the disease is distributed has 
not been e.xtended. Husk or hoose (lungworm) has been rather 
prevalent in some districts ; but the anticipated extensive outbreak 
of liver-rot (fluke) in sheep has not taken place. 
27. Some important investigations have been carried on in the De- 
partment of Comparative Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College 
during the year, especially in reference to contagious foot-rot among 
sheep. Further experiments have been made to test the infectivity 
of meat from tuberculous animals after various degrees of cooking. 
Inquiries into the origin and treatment of husk in calves and lambs 
have been continued, and recently special investigations have been 
carried on in reference to aboi-tion in cows in different parts of the 
country. A paper on tliis subject by Professor ]'>rown will appear 
in the forthcoming nuniber of the Journal. 
28. At tlie request of tlie authoi'ities of the Instit utions com erned, 
the Council have nominated the President of tlio Society for 
the time l)eing to act cx officio as the Society's representative 
upon the permanent governing body of the Imperial Institute, and 
upon the Council of the Britisli Institute of Preventive Medicine. 
