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be affected with a contagious or infectious disease, specify¬ 
ing the disease, and the ports from which, and to which, 
such animals were brought, and the mode in which such 
animals have been disposed of. 
Foreign 
ports from 
which 
brought. 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
to which 
brought. 
Disease. 
Numbek oe Animals aeeected. 
Disposal. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
Total. 
Slaughtered by 
Order of Customs. 
Antwerp... 
London ... 
Foot-and- 
Mouth . 
• • • 
• • • 
... 
70 
70 
70 
Hamburg . 
London ... 
99 
181 
46 
39 
266 
266 
Hartlepool 
99 
90 
1 
• • • 
• t • 
91 
91 
99 
Hull . 
99 
13 
... 
... 
• « • 
13 
13 
Harlingen. 
London ... 
99 
3 
... 
« « « 
52 
55 
55 
Rotterdam 
London ... 
99 
1 
1032 
• * • 
... 
1033 
1033 
Tonning... 
London ... 
99 
74 
... 
• • • 
... 
74 
74 
Total ... 
• • • • • • 
.. 
362 
1079 
• • « 
161 
1602 
1602 
“ ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Privy Council Office, Secretary. 
“ Veterinary Department, 14th October, 1869.” 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
CRUELTY TO SHEEP.—OVERCROWDING RAILWAY 
TRUCKS. 
At Gloucester on Friday, Oct, 8th, John Jones, a Welsh drover, 
was charged before the mayor and magistrates with cruelty to a 
flock of sheep. The prosecution was instructed by the Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It appears that on the 27th 
of August last the defendant sent 240 sheep in six railway trucks 
from Hereford to Gloucester, by the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester 
branch of the Great Western Railway. In one truck measuring 
eleven feet by seven feet, there were no less than seventy-four sheep 
packed, and some were trampled under foot by the others. All 
were in an exhausted state; one was dead, and several appeared to 
be dying, but were revived by having water thrown on them. The 
dead sheep was a mass of bruises, and died from suffocation. The 
owner was fined £5 and £9 expenses, and the drover was fined 
2s. 6d. 
