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lI^roccc^^na5 at 1balf=*^carl^ flDeetinG of 
(3ovcrnor5 anb fIDembers, 
HELD IN THE HALL OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, 
20 HAXOYER SQUARE. 
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1891. 
THE EAEL OF FEVERSHAM (PEESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present: — 
Mcmhers of Council. — Col. Sir Nigel 
Kingscote, K.C.B. (Trustee), Sir John 
H. Thorold, Bart. (Vice-President), 
Sir Jacob Wilson, Messrs. G. ilander 
Allender, J. Bowen-Jones, Lieut. -Col. 
J. F. Curtis - Havward, Messrs. J. 
Marshall Dugdale,' S. P. Foster, Wm. 
Frankish, Charles Howard, C. S. 
Mainwaring, T. H. Miller, Albert Pell, 
G. H. Sanday, Henry Smith, E. Wil- 
frid Stanyforth, Martin J. Sutton, 
and C. W. 'Wilson. 
Menibert. — Sir G. Macpherson- 
Grant, Bart. (Governor), Sir J. Heron- 
!Maxwell, Bart., Messrs. Ralph Arnold, 
Pi. C. Assheton, George Barham, John 
Barron, H. W. B. Berwick, George 
Blake, Professor Brown, C.B., Thomas 
Chamock, Horace F. Cox, Major 
Craigie, Messrs. J. Kersley Fowler, 
George Gibbons, H. Foord Harris, J. 
Harris, C. H. Hooper, C. F. Hope, 
Frederick King, R. Jasper More, M.P., 
Ralph Palmer, Clare Sewell Read, 
E. Riley, J. E. Scotson, W. Scotson, 
Thomas Stirton, G. F. Strawson, 
George Sutton, W. A. G. Taylor, 
Howard Thomas, John Thornton, 
Jonas M. Webb, &c. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary and Editor ; Dr. J. Augustus 
Voelcker, Consulting Chemist. 
The half-yearly Report of the Coun- 
cil (see page 805) having been taken 
as read, the Secretary gave a brief 
synopsis of its contents. 
Mr. Clare Sewell Read, in mov- 
ing the adoption of the report, said 
he did so with much pleasure, because 
it appeared to him that their great 
national Society had not suffered 
from the reaction of its Jubilee year, 
but had renewed it.« earnestness and 
increased its strength. With regard 
to pleuro-pneumonia, he was very 
glad to say that, although one or two 
members of the Council had cast 
some doubt upon the value of the 
eiforts made by the Board of Agri- 
culture for the suppression of that 
most virulent disease, the Board was, 
he believed, on the fair road to suc- 
cess. In his own county the course 
adopted had been a complete and 
entire success. No county had for- 
merly suffered more than Norfolk 
from this disease, and they had de- 
clared for years and years that they 
received a considerable proportion of 
that disease from Ireland. Since the 
Pleuro-pneumonia Act had been faith- 
fully and fairly put in force in Ire- 
land, they had not had a single case of 
pleuro-pneumonia in Norfolk : not 
one case since last September twelve 
months. In the previous year the 
Norfolk County Council had paid no 
less than o.OOOZ. for the animals 
slaughtered. They, in Norfolk at 
least, had reason to be satisfied with 
the experiment. He quite acquiesced 
with the suggestion of the Council to 
the Board of Agriculture that more 
stringent measures should be adopted 
in regard to swine fever, because he 
believed that the varying and con- 
flicting orders issued by the various 
local authorities, although extremely 
costly to the ratepayers of every 
county where that disease existed, 
resulted in the squandering of money. 
He hoped either that the Board of 
Agriculture would make those autho- 
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