FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
619 
disease, known as distemper, lias been reported from Bruree, 
county Limerick. The cattle on several large farms are re- 
ported to be extensively affected, and Government has been 
applied to for measures to check the spread of the disease. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1869. 
t( Return of the number of foreign animals brought by sea 
to ports in Great Britain, which on inspection on landing, 
within the month of June, 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 
animals were brought, and the mode in which such animals 
have been disposed of. 
Foreign 
ports from 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
Disease. 
Numbee of Animals affected. 
Disposal. 
which 
brought. 
to which 
brought. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
Total. 
Slaughtered by 
Order of Customs, 
Cherbourg 
South- 
ampton... 
Foot-and- 
Mouth . 
9 
178 
187 
187 
Hamburg . 
Hartlepool 
11 
3 
... 
3 
3 
91 
Hull 
11 
... 
ii 
11 
11 
Rotterdam 
Hull 
11 
... 
... 
2 
2 
2 
Total 
3 
9 
191 
203 
203 
“ ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Privy Council Office, Secretary. 
“ Veterinary Department, 14th July, 1870.” 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
According to the last returns there are fifty-three counties 
in which foot and mouth disease is prevalent; altogether there 
are between three and four hundred centres of infection. 
