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got this Dileafe, and apprehending that it wou’d be- 
come general ; I gave in the following Report to a Com?- 
mittee of Council. 
The Diflemper among the Cattle encreafing, and be- 
ginning to appear in feveral other Counties, I thought 
it my Duty to acquaint your Lordfhips, with the ha-^ 
zard that may attend their not being duely buried. It 
is the Opinion of all Authors in Phyfick that treat of 
Contagious Difeafes, as well as of feveral of the Phyfi- 
tians in Town, that a Putrifadion of fo many Cows 
as there is reafon to fear will dye of this Diflemper, 
may produce fome Contagious Difeafc among Men ; 
unlefs they are buried fo deep that the Infectious £/- 
fluvU cannot injure the Air, which I am certain has 
very feldom been complyed with, except in the Coun- 
ties of Middlefex, EJfex, 2ind. Surry, the Gentlemen em- 
ployed being capable of aCling in thofe Counties on- 
ly. It is affirmed by feveral now living, that there 
was a Mortality among the Cattle, a little before the 
laft great Plague in the Year 1665, which was imputed 
to the want of a due Care in burying them. And your 
Lordffiips may know of what importance it was judg- 
ed by the King of Prujjia, x\\q States of Holland, and fe- 
veral other Princes and States, by the Care they took 
to publilh Decrees and Placarts, commanding them to 
be buried upon pain of Death, or other fevere penal- 
ties; and I humbly conceive it wou’d be neceflary, not 
only to bury thofe which (hall Dye, but that fuch as are 
already Dead may have the fame Care; as alfo that they 
be buried nine or ten Foot deep at leaft. All which is 
mofl humbly fubmitted, 
Their Lordffiips thought fit to defer all proceeding 
upon this Report, till the Diflemper becoming more 
general ffiou’d make it Neceflary;, but I thank God 
that Neceffity never happened, for within three Weeks 
