FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
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provoked a large amount of interest in the investigation as to the 
cause thereof. Controversy waxed warm, especially when it be¬ 
came known that the cause of the epidemic corresponded most 
intimately with the track of a particular milkman, and that the 
milk supplied by this man was believed to be the vehicle of the 
specific poison occasioning the epidemic. 
For the purpose of ascertaining what particular taint was 
present in the milk which was calculated to occasion this partic¬ 
ular epidemic, a searching inquiry was made, and the following 
facts collected : The implicated dairyman obtained his supply of 
milk from twelve cows kept on his own premises at Dover, and 
also from three farm establishments in the country. All these 
places were visited and diligent search made for any evidence of 
the disease among either the cows or people living or engaged on 
the premises. 
“ At one of the establishments in the country it was found 
that aphthous fever had broken out among the stock on January 
14th, and that milk from some of the affected cows was delivered 
to the Dover dairyman, and, after being mixed with other milk, 
distributed to his customers. Moreover, it was from this infected 
farm alone that the Dover dairyman obtained the supply of cream 
furnished to his customers. At the beginning of the inquiry it 
was stoutly denied that any of the milch-cows had suffered from 
disease, and a certificate from a veterinary surgeon and inspector to 
this effect was obtained and published. The matter was then re¬ 
ferred to the police, and the truth gradually oozed out, until the 
facts as already stated were established beyond dispute; then the 
farmer not only admitted the fact of the disease among the milch- 
cows, but confessed to the sale of their cream and milk in Dover, 
not only to the dairyman whose milk was especially implicated, 
but also to another milkman, on two separate occasions, among 
whose customers a second simultaneous outbreak occurred ; thus a 
second experiment was performed with this tainted milk among 
another set of individuals, with like results to the first, contrib¬ 
uting additional evidence of the presence of poison in the milk 
supplied from the infected farm. Thus it was clearly established 
that the sufferers in this epidemic partook of milk which had been 
