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THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1869. 
Return of the Number of Foreign Animals brought 
by Sea to Ports in Great Britain, which on inspection on 
landing, within the Month of February, 1871, have been 
found to be affected with any Contagious or Infectious 
Disease, specifying the Disease, and the Ports from which, 
and to which, such Animals were brought, and the mode in 
which such Animals have been disposed of. 
Foreign 
ports from 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
Disease. 
Number of Animals afeected. 
Disposal. 
which 
brought. 
to which 
brought. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
Total. 
Slaughtered at 
place of landing. 
'Antwerp . 
London 
Foot-and- 
Mouth 
... 
6 
6 
6 
I 
Harwich 
... 
... 
11 
11 
11 
Bremen . 
London 
•• 
27 
... 
27 
27 
Total 
• 
27 
... 
17 
44 
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“ ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Privy Council Office, Secretary. 
“Veterinary Department, 13th March, 1871.” 
AN ANIDIAN MONSTROSITY. 
We have received from Mr. E. Creswell, M.R.C.V.S., 
Bromsgrove, an interesting specimen of a so-called Anidian 
Monstrosity, which was given birth to by a white, short-horn 
cow, two hours after delivery of a healthy and well-developed 
bull-calf of a roan colour. The monstrosity is round in form 
and about the size of the crown of a hat. It weighed 1 lb. 2oz. 
when coming to hand, but is said to have been of much 
greater weight and size when expelled from the uterus. It 
is thickly covered with long and fine white hair. The hair 
is longest and thickest on one side. On the side where the 
hair is thinnest a nude spot exists at the point of attachment 
of the vessels of the placental membrane ; and in addition 
to this, not far from the external border of the monstrosity, 
two other nude spots are found nearly opposite to each 
other. Both these spots are deeply concave, and of a rel 
