Ixxxviii Monthly Council, July 29, 1891. 
afternoon throngliout the whole of 
the infested districts by means of 
the Post Office. Inspectors were 
being appointed who would be in- 
structed to visit the infested places, 
and make elaborate reports of the 
outbreak, adding methods of preven- 
tion and remedial measures which 
might have been found successful. 
He could assure the Council that 
every effort would be made by the 
Board of Agriculture on that occa- 
sion. With regard to what fell 
from Lord Cathcart, he (Mr. White- 
head) did not believe that those 
moths were driven across the sea. 
The information which Lord Ravens- 
worth had given was very interesting, 
and he was very much obliged to the 
noble Lord. The Board of Agricul- 
ture would bo especially grateful to 
the members of the Council for intel- 
ligence as to where the attack existed 
(naming, if possible, the individual 
parishes), in order that they might 
make inquiries, and give every possi- 
ble information. 
The subject then dropped, but the 
Secretary was instructed to afford all 
possible assistance to the officials 
of the Board of Agriculture in the 
inquiry about to be instituted. 
Veterinary. 
Sir JoHX Thorold (Chairman) 
presented the followlDg report from 
Professor Brown : — 
Pleueo - PNEUMONIA. — During 
the ten months from September 1, 
1890, when the Pleuro-pneumonia 
Act came into operation, to the 
end of June 1891, 240 outbreaks of 
this disease were dealt with by the 
Board of Agriculture ; 11,452 cattle 
were slaughtered, of which 1,036 
were found affected with the dis- 
ease. 
In the corresponding period of 
1889-90 there were 291 fresh out- 
breaks ; 6,891 cattle were slaugh- 
tered by the local authorities, of 
■which 1,493 were said to have been 
affected ^\-ith the disease. 
In tlie three weeks ending July 
18 there were twenty-four fre.sh 
outbreaks reported ; 807 cattle 
were slaughtered by order of the 
Board of Agriculture, of which 
forty-five were diseased. 
The recent increase in the amount 
of pleuro-pneumonia is chiefly, if 
not entirely, due to infected or 
diseased cattle sold by a dealer in 
Southampton, and distributed all 
over England. The Board of Agri- 
culture have traced and slaughtered 
over 150 cattle sold by this man 
since the beginning of the year, 
with the result that pleuro-pneu- 
monia has been found among them 
on no less than thirteen different 
premises. 
Anthrax. — During the four 
weeks ended Jul}' 18 there were 
twenty-one fresh outbreaks of 
anthrax in Great Britain, in the 
counties of Devon, Essex, Kent, 
Lancaster, Leicester, Lincoln, Salop, 
Somerset, Suffolk, Sussex, and York 
(West Riding), in England ; and 
Aberdeen and Dumfries, in Scot- 
land. Of twenty- eight animals 
attacked, one was killed and the 
remainder died. 
SwiNE Fever.— This disease 
still continues to be very prevalent 
in many parts of England; there 
were 633 fresh outbreaks in the 
four weeks, and 3,615 pigs were 
attacked, 1,813 diseased pigs were 
killed, 1,332 died, 377 recovered, 
and 767 remained alive when the 
last published weekly return was 
made up. 
A letter, dated July 14, had been 
read from the Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College stating, in reply to 
the Society's communication on May 7 
last, that on notice being sent to 
the College of any outbreak of abor- 
tion in cattle, a special investigation 
would at once be undertaken, and 
suggesting that the members of the 
Royal Agricultural Society should be 
invited to notify the Principal of the 
College of any outbreak of the disease 
occurring among their cattle, so that 
he might immediately be able to insti- 
tute an inquiry. The Committee 
desired to direct the attention of 
members of the Council and of mem- 
bers of the Society to this communi- 
cation, and to point out that the cost 
of any investigation which might be 
undertaken would be borne by the 
College. A letter was read from Mr. 
AV'alter Gilbey, tendering his resig- 
nation as one of the Society's six 
representatives upon the General 
