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Contagious Foot-Rot in Sheep. 
appointment upon the Registration 
Committee of the President of the 
Society for the time being, the Chair- 
man of the Veterinary Committee for 
the time being, and Mr. Charles Clay. 
Professor Brown had presented the 
following report : — 
Pleuko - PNEUMONIA. — Since 
June 1 there have been only four 
outbreaks of this disease in Great 
Britain, in the counties of Lan- 
caster, London, and York (W.R.), 
and Forfar. In the corresponding 
period of last year there were 
forty-eight outbreaks, distributed 
over twenty-two counties. 
Foot-And-Mouth Disease. — 
No cases of this disease have been 
discovered in Great Britain since 
the week ended June 10 ; and 
now the whole of the restrictions 
placed on the movement of animals 
by the Board of Agriculture on ac- 
count of foot-and-mouth disease 
have been removed. 
bwiSE Fever. — During the past 
seven weeks there have been 
649 outbreaks of this disease in 
Great Britain; 2,757 pigs were 
attacked, 1,494 diseased swine 
were killed, 986 died, 232 recovered, 
and 222 remained alive when the 
last published return was made up. 
Anthrax. — During the past few 
weeks there have been two rather 
serious outbreaks of this disease 
in Sussex, — one at Chalvington, and 
the other at Ringmer. In one of 
these outbreaks some twenty ani- 
mals, including two horses, died ; 
and one of the men employed on 
the farm, who killed a diseased 
cow before the nature of the disease 
was known, got inoculated, and 
died. 
Contagidus Foot-Rot in Sheep. 
Earl Cathcart moved : 
That as the existence of a con- 
tagious form of Foot-rot in Sheep is 
now an established fact, the Veterin- 
ary Committee be requested to in- 
quire and report as to means (if any) 
that may be taken or suggested 
for preventing, or minimising, the 
effects of this widespread and dis- 
astrous contagion. And that the 
Committee be further requested 
to inquire as to action taken b}' 
the United States of America 
State Department of Agriculture 
in regard to Sheep Foot-rot conta- 
gion— a contagion scheduled in 
the United States together with 
Sheep-Pox and Scab. 
He said his motion was in no sense 
a contentious one, but as he had 
originally brought this matter for- 
ward, he naturally wished to keep it 
alive. They were very much indebted 
to Professor Brown for the able paper 
he had written in the last number of the 
Journal [see p. 27G],and for the candid 
manner in which he had admitted the 
contagious nature of foot-rot, which 
in this country had never before been 
sufficiently recognised. The Ameri- 
cans in that respect were before 
them. In the United States the 
words “contagious diseases” included 
and applied to all or any of the 
following diseases : — “ Anthr.ox in 
cattle, sheep, goats, or swine ; con- 
tagious plcuro-pneumonia in cattle ; 
tuberculosis in cattle ; foot-and-mouth 
dise.ase in cattle, sheep, goats, and 
swine ; rinderpest • in cattle and 
sheep ; sheep-pox, foot-rot, and scab 
in sheep ; hog cholera ; and swine 
plague in swine.” He wished to ask 
the Veterinary Committee to ascer- 
tain what were the inland regulations 
in force in the United States with 
regard to foot-rot. An extract from 
the American Regulations, which 
had been kindly furnished to him by 
the veterinary authorities, merely re- 
ferred to imports from other coun- 
tries. He was interested to know 
what (if any) were the inland regula- 
tions. Nothing could be more ad- 
mirably candid than the announce- 
ment with which Professor Brown 
opened his article : — “ In the history 
of sheep husbandry, foot-rot has 
always been referred to as a scourge 
of the race, causing serious losses 
wherever it appears, and in some 
parts of the world the malady as- 
sumes a degree of malignancy which 
entitles it to be classed among the 
most virulent of animal plagues.” 
During the period of thirty-six 
years that he (Lord Cathcart) had 
himself been engaged in farming 
(from the year 1850 to 1886), he 
believed he lost more money from 
contagious foot-rot than from any 
other cause. As soon as he got 
