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cattle were bred, and which was proved bv experience to be as 
free, if not more free from disease than cattle in most countries. 
But he was glad to say that the German Government, which had 
shown much interest in the matter, had come to an arrangement 
with his noble friend the Foreign Secretary, whereby on the pro¬ 
duction of a Government certificate that the cattle had been bred 
in Schleswig-Holstein they would be allowed to enter the inland 
towns and the cattle market at Islington in the same way as 
cattle from Denmark and Holland, provided that those provinces 
were fulfilled which, after careful deliberation, the Privy Council 
considered to be sufficient for the protection of cattle from 
disease. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
Monday, July 15 th. 
In reply to Mr. Backhouse, 
Mr. Forster had reason to believe that there had recently been 
a considerable increase in the spread of the foot-and-mouth 
disease amongst cattle. He had no statistics, however, on the 
subject, as the local authorities declined to send in returns, which 
were only provided for by a permissive Order in Council. It 
rested with those authorities, if they chose, to take precautions 
against the spread of the disease. 
Thursday, July 18 th. 
Mr. Read asked the Vice-President of the Council whether 
his attention had been directed to the prevalenco of foot-and- 
mouth disease in the Metropolitan Cattle Market, where over 
100 cattle so diseased were certified by competent veterinary sur¬ 
geons to have been exposed for sale upon four successive Mondays, 
and also to a case at Norwich, in which a Norfolk dealer was 
fined £50, and £8 4s. costs, for exposing twenty-five sheep affected 
with foot-and-mouth disease on Norwich Hill; and whether he 
wrnuld reconsider the expediency of maintaining the present regu¬ 
lations under which the district authority rigorously enforces the 
penalties under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act while the 
foot-and-mouth disease, as well as sheep scab, existed in the 
metropolitan market, and was from thence taken to all parts of 
the kingdom. 
Mr. Forster said the department had received a letter stating 
that it was the impression of several veterinary surgeons that 
foot-and-mouth disease had prevailed in the Metropolitan Cattle 
Market. On inquiry, the local authority of the metropolitan 
