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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1869. 
it lias been for the past two or three years. Much secrecy is 
observed with regard to the disease ; notwithstanding which 
nearly a score of glandered horses are known to have b^en 
sent to the knackers in one week at the beginning of the 
past month. The General Order of Council made under the 
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act requires that notice should 
be given of the existence of glanders and due care be taken 
to prevent its spead ; notwithstanding which it is evident 
that the provisions both of the Order and the Act are, in 
many instances, totally disregarded by the owners of glandered 
horses. A few prosecutions would do much to remedy this 
evil, and these we hope to find will be instituted by the Local 
Authorities. 
MEASLY PORK. 
The parasitic disease of the flesh of pigs, commonly known 
as “ measly pork,” is attracting considerable attention in 
consequence of the large number of cases which have recently 
been detected by meat inspectors. At Sheffield, a pork 
butcher has been fined forty shillings for having in his 
possession a quantity of diseased meat, and another person in 
the same town has been fined five pounds and costs for con- 
verting “ measly pork ” into bacon and hams, which had been 
bought professedly for boiling dow r n for grease. 
Many of the foreign pigs which reach this country from 
Eastern Europe — known in the trade as Hungarian pigs — 
have been found to be affected with this parasitic disease. 
Much of this kind of meat is converted into sausages, and sold 
in the poorer parts of the metropolis. Long exposure to a 
high temperature in cooking will destroy the parasites, but 
too often this is neglected, and hence we may look for an 
increase of cases of tapeworms among the inhabitants of 
such districts. 
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, 1870, have been found to be 
affected with any contagious or infectious disease, specifying 
the disease, and the ports from which, and to which, such 
