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attacked. This has always been a feature of the returns 
regarding anthrax in this country, and it contradicts the 
common public opinion that the disease is a highly contagious 
one. Evidence presented in previous reports suggests that a 
great deal of the anthrax which occurs in this country is caused 
by the consumption of imported food-stuffs which contain or 
are contaminated with the germs of anthrax. In so far as 
such contamination occurs in the raw material before ship- 
ment, this is a danger against which it is difficult to devise 
effective measures ; but it is not improbable that the con- 
tamination frequently occurs through food-stuffs and hides 
from anthrax animals being carried on the same ship, either 
on the same or successive voyages, and that is a source of the 
disease which might be checked without great expense or 
interference with trade. 
But it cannot be too strongly emphasised that although most 
cases in this country are started by seeds of the disease brought 
from foreign countries in which anthrax is much more preva- 
lent, any case originating in that way may be the starting point 
of a serious outbreak, and even of recurrent outbreaks at con- 
siderable intervals of time, if proper precautions are not taken 
in connection with the diseased animal and its carcass. It, 
therefore, appears to be desirable to repeat the warning that the 
sudden unexpected death of a farm animal, and especially of 
one of the bovine species, should raise suspicion of anthrax, 
and lead the owner to report the case to the local authority. 
Glanders. 
The following 
Table 
shows the incidence of glanders in 
Great Britain during the last eight years 
Year 
Outbreaks 
Animals attacked 
1906 
1,066 
2,012 
1907 
854 
1,921 
1908 
789 
2,433 
1909 
533 
1,753 
1910 
351 
1,014 
1911 
1 208 
501 
1912 
173 
314 
1913 
162 
447 
It is satisfactory to observe that during the past year a further 
reduction in the prevalence of the disease has been effected, 
at least as regards the number of outbreaks, although it ib 
a little disappointing to find that there was no reduction in the 
number of animals attacked. The glanders order now in force 
came into operation on January 1, 1908, and it is impossible to 
doubt that the progress which has been made towards the 
complete eradication of the disease is mainly due to one of its 
