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provisions, viz., that which indirectly compels owners to allow 
all their “ in contact ” horses to be tested with mallein when- 
ever a case of glanders has been detected on their premises. A 
certain measure of credit for the result must, however, be given 
to the practical suppression of cab and omnibus stables, which 
were always the establishments that furnished the largest 
proportion of cases of glanders among their horses. 
Foot-and-mouth Disease. 
During the year 1912 there were 83 outbreaks of this 
disease, in which 645 animals were attacked. The last of 
these outbreaks occurred in December, and, like the others, 
it was promptly suppressed by the energetic measures taken 
by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. During the past 
year the country continued to be free from the disease till 
November, on the 12th of which month an outbreak was 
detected on a farm in the county of Sussex, near Eastbourne. 
The number of animals attacked in this outbreak was 23 
(all cattle), and the disease disappeared with the slaughter of 
these and of 13 cattle and 2 swine which had been exposed to 
infection. 
A second and more extensive outbreak in which 50 cattle 
were attacked was detected on December 15 on a farm in the 
county of Hertford, near Welwyn. This outbreak w r as also 
successfully dealt with by the prompt slaughter of the diseased 
cattle and of the other animals (1 cow and 60 swine) which 
had been exposed to infection. The two outbreaks appear to 
have been been unconnected, and no circumstance explaining 
the origin of either was discovered. 
Sheep Scab. 
The number of reported outbreaks of this disease during 
the last six years was as follows : — 
Year 
Outbreaks 
1908 
849 
1909 
685 
1910 
556 
1911 
434 
1912 
302 
1913 
236 
These figures speak for themselves. Very satisfactory 
progress has been made during the past year, and if the rate of 
reduction could be continued the last of the disease in Great 
Britain would soon be seen. That, however, is hardly to be 
expected, for special difficulty is likely to be encountered in 
rooting it out from the mountain and hill farms to which it is 
now mainly confined. 
