Dr. layard on the Dlflemper , &c. 537 
In confequence of the effay which I publifhed in 
1756, I was called upon in 1 7 69, by government, to 
aflift with my advice towards the flopping the progrefs of 
the contagious diftemper among the cattle, which had 
broken out in Hampfhire: and by mere accident I difco- 
vered how the infection was brought from Holland to 
London, ancl was conveyed into that county. 
Speedily and effectually to extirpate the calamity, no 
affiftance was permitted to vifit the infeCted villages, left 
the farmers fhould be induced to prolong the illnefs, bv 
attempting to cure their cattle; but poll five orders were 
iffued that all the cattle fhould be killed and buried pro- 
perly, by which vigorous and falutary directions the 
diftemper ceafed intirely in a fhort time. 
The fame aCts of parliament and orders of council, to 
kill the cattle and bury them, deep, fucceeded alfo foon 
after in North Britain ; and to the former ads and orders 
iffued in his late Majefty King george the fecond’s 
reign, thefe alterations were made : to order that the in- 
fected cattle fhould be killed, without effufion of blood, 
by ftrangling ; the hides to be neither cut or flafhed ; but 
the carcaffes buried whole ; and that all the fodder, lit- 
ter, excrement. See. fhould be buried, inftead of being 
burned* 
Since 
