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CATTLE DISEASE IN GLASGOW. 
The Glasgow Herald of Monday, August 21st, states : ee We 
are sorry to have to report that the foot-and-mouth disease 
continues to spread. Last week upwards of 100 animals were 
seized by Professor M f Call and his assistant inspectors. Cattle 
were not allowed to leave the market until they had been in- 
spected and certified as sound, but, notwithstanding these 
precautionary measures, several outbreaks have taken place 
among the animals removed under license to the fields in and 
around the city. The steamers and railways are now under 
inspection, and, as far as we can learn, this course has not 
been taken a day too soon. Animals affected with foot-and- 
mouth disease are not allowed to move except under license 
to the nearest slaughter-house, and their carcases in every 
case are subjected to an examination before removal. The 
disease principally affects the mucous membrane of the 
mouth, stomach, and intestines, and the delicate and finer 
portion of the skin betwixt and around the hoofs, and in the 
udder in cows giving milk. In fully-developed cases, portions 
of the covering of the tongue fall off, leaving the organ 
highly inflamed and intensely sensitive and painful. Ulcers 
are also found in the intestinal mucous membrane, associated 
with diarrhoea. The symptoms are characteristic, viz. 
dribbling of saliva from the mouth, smacking the lips, blood- 
shot and watery eyes, lameness, arching of the back, and 
disinclination to move. In every case of foot-and-mouth, 
the feet, tongue, stomach, and intestines at least are con- 
demned as unfit for human food, and to this loss a fee for 
inspection of the carcase has to be added, so that the total 
loss to the butcher cannot be stated at less than 10s. on each 
affected animal. This may appear to some a very insignifi- 
cant sum, but to the butchers of Glasgow, judging from the 
complaints which are made, it is more than they can well 
bear. It is but justice to the trade, however, to state that 
they do not so much object to the condemnation of the parts 
affected as to the fee for inspection ; and although the Police 
Act doubtless sanctions the levying of the fee, it is thought 
by some that the sooner the Police Board discontinue to 
make this charge the better. 
“ During the prevalence of rinderpest, the Local Authority 
under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act and the Police 
Board jointly paid the inspector a fixed salary, and the fee 
formerly charged the butcher was discontinued. The 
arrangement was cancelled shortly after rinderpest was 
