746 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1869. 
symptoms, have reached us from counties the most dis- 
tant from each other, and from localities where the greatest 
possible differences exist in the prevailing breed of cattle, 
character of soil, system of farming, &c. It would thus appear 
that the causes of this disease, he they what they may, are on the 
increase, and consequently it behoves the members of the 
profession to make the most searching investigations in each 
separate outbreak. In one case which occurred in Stafford- 
shire it would seem that a relationship — as cause and effect 
— existed between the feeding of the cattle on land irri- 
gated with town sewage and the outbreak of the disease ; but 
in numerous other cases of the most severe kind, the closest 
investigations have failed to show that the slightest exposure of 
the cattle to either vegetable or animal matter in a state of 
decomposition had taken place. It is evident that an accu- 
mulation of facts must be one of the first things attained, 
and we rely on our readers to furnish these for publication in 
our journal, with a view to a searching inquiry being made 
into the pathology and causes of splenic apoplexy. 
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 August, 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 
which 
brought. 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
to which 
brought. 
Disease. 
Numbee of Animals affected. 
Disposal. 
Cattle 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
■ • V ■ 
Total. 
Slaughtered by 
Order of Customs. 
Honfleur . 
Little- 
-hampton 
Foot-and- 
Mouth . 
2 
2 
2 
Total 
2 
2 
2 
“ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Privy Council Office, Secretary. 
“ Veterinary Department, 12th September, 1870.” 
