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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
HARLESTON, NORFOLK. 
SHEEP SCAB. — CONVICTION UNDER THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 
(animals) ACT. 
At the Petty Sessions on Friday, April 22nd, before the Rev 
G. France, Sandcroft Holmes, George Holmes, and A. A. Bouverie, 
Esqs., Captain Norton Robert Cartwright , agent to Colonel Sir 
Robert Shafto Adair, Bart., of Flixton Hall, was charged under the 
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 32 and 33 Vic., 70 ch. and 
57 sec., with having on the 31st March removed, or caused to be 
removed, along the highway a number of sheep, ten of which were 
suffering from a disease called scab, such disease being infectious ; 
and the same defendant was also charged with having allowed such 
diseased animals to be offered for sale in a public place, such place 
being the Cardinal’s Hat Inn, Harieston. 
Superintendent Ward said that on the 30th March last he visited 
a repository sale' at Harieston, where he saw some sheep that were 
suffering from scab. He inquired who they belonged to, when he 
was told that they came from Flixton Hall. 
Mr. George Mulcastor, farm bailiff to Captain Cartwright, said he 
was subject to Captain Cartwright’s orders. He came to the 
Flixton estate in September last, and since that time the sheep had 
been dressed twice. He told Captain Cartwright in the last week 
in January that the sheep were affected with the scab. He thought 
that the dressing had perfectly cured the disease, and had the sheep 
been left to him he should have sold them at home. There was no 
public inspecter called in to look at the sheep. He told Captain 
Cartwright, in January, that. he did not think that the dressing 
would cure them, and since then all of them had been “ patched.” 
In cross-examination by Captain Cartwright , witness said that it 
was not the custom to call in any professional gentlemen to inspect 
the flocks. He told the defendant that they must sell the sheep in 
another month, when he received orders to take them to Durrant’s 
sale. 
Edward Dean, shepherd, said he drove the sheep according to the 
orders of Mr. Mulcastor, to Mr. Durrant’s sale. About twelve days 
previous to the sale, the sheep were suffering from scab. 
Mr. Herbert Buckenham, veterinary surgeon, said he inspected 
the sheep on the 30th of March, at the repository, and found some 
of them suffering from the scab. 
Mr. Daniel George Hunting, government inspector of the district, 
inspected the sheep on the 31st of March, and found ten of them 
in an active stage of scab. In cross-examination witness said that 
the disease would be increased by travelling along the road to the 
sale. 
