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temperatures were not taken, there would be nothing at the inspection on that 
date to show that the animals were ill even if at the time of inspection the 
disease had commenced. It is to be noted that during the period from 
February 15th to February 22nd during which these animals sickened 
there was nothing to prevent the spread of infection and the wide distri¬ 
bution of animals in contact with these diseased ones. Later proof was 
obtained that some animals from the shed had been sold and taken 
to a place where they developed the disease and acted as foci for other 
outbreaks. 
The three living animals with the disease were immediately isolated, 
and the remaining eleven of the imported cattle were also isolated and 
another group of 22, which were in stalls sufficiently close for the possibility 
of infection to have occurred, separately isolated, and all movements in and 
out of an area of about two square miles were prohibited. The cattle in this 
area, numbering some 250, were inspected daily and kept tied up. No 
further cases occurred amongst the cattle except amongst those which had 
formed a part of the first shipment. Amongst these 2 cases occurred on 
the 25th.. The remaining 10 of this group which were free from any sign 
of the disease were taken to the Institute and kept in the veterinary 
enclosure. One case amongst these occurred on the 28th, one on March 1st, 
and one each on the nth and 13th. Some attempt at isolation was made 
in that as soon as any animal was attacked it was kept separate, but the 
space available was not sufficient for complete isolation. Even the imper¬ 
fect attempt was partly successful as 6 were not attacked and 2 of them 
were proved to be susceptible as they subsequently acquired the disease in 
a later outbreak. 
It appeared, therefore, that the epidemic had been stamped out in 
a cattle district by simple means and with a loss of only 4 head out 
of 10 attacked. 
After the attack had been recognised, except amongst the original herd, 
there were no fresh cases in that district for some months, and this herd was 
so isolated that no spread to other cattle took place. 
In spite of this two fresh outbreak, about 3 and 5 miles respectively 
from the site of the original outbreaks, were discovered on February 27th and 
March 15th respectively. Subsequently it was ascertained that cattle from 
the originally infected area had been sent to these places just before that 
outbreak had been reported but during the period when the original four 
animals were suffering from the disease. Two fresh foci were thus formed. 
At both these places the ground is irregular and full of holes from old tin 
mines and brickfields. The cattle sheds were built on the elevated portions 
and in the hollows between the animals grazed and were washed and the 
drainage from the sheds naturally passed into these hollows. 
Proper isolation in this district was impossible. The cattle showing 
no signs of the disease were removed to temporary quarantine stations and 
inoculated with Indian Rinderpest Serum. 
In one of these two outbreaks when reported, February 27th, one animal 
was found dead and one was attacked in the next week. There had been a 
death, cause unknown, February 21th. 
The second outbreak was reported on March 15th, and four animals 
were then suffering from Rinderpest, and by the 17th, four more were down 
with the disease. 
