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any faecal matter. That in the channels looks exactly like 
soapy water. 
1 have before stated that the meadows 1, 2 and 3, those in 
which this sewage-water is distributed, were the only ones in 
which cases of anthrax were known to occur, and it therefore 
became important to ascertain whether any other conditions 
existed which might have given rise to these cases. Without 
going into the details of this investigation, it may be stated 
that no such conditions could be discovered : the disease was 
aa. Main sewer. 
h. Cistern. 
c. Main trench. 
d. Lateral trenches with blmd ends. 
1, 2, and 3. Jleadows in which the sewage 
is distributed. 
4. Jleadow beyond sewage. 
5. Meadows on the other side of the valley 
and stream. 
(The arrows show the direction of the flow.) 
not known to exist anywhere in the neighbourhood, and all the 
other means of conveyance were exhaustively examined, with 
a negative result. The animals which died were buried in 
meadow No. 4, in which hardly any cattle were ever kept. 
The marked coincidence of the occurrence of cases in the men 
employed on the wool, and in the cattle, tended also strongly to 
support this view of their common origin. 
The proprietor of the farm bought 12 Scotch heifers in Mull 
in February ; these were pastured together and fed on hay until 
the second week in May, when they were divided into three 
lots. The first lot of five were placed on the fields irrigated 
with the sud-water, viz. fields 1, 2 and 3. The second lot 
