THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1 8G9. 203 
tumour seems to indicate that it is of recent growth ; its size 
is sufficient to cause it to press on the commencement of the 
rectum. The rectum contains a small quantity of soft, light 
coloured faeces, the bladder a small quantity of very thick 
urine. The haemorrhage may have been the immediate cause 
of death. Mr. Shipley considers that the fracture that caused 
it may have been due to the animal falling down shortly 
before death. 
Professor Axe made a microscopical examination of the 
specimen, and is of an opinion that is is decidedly of an 
encephaloid nature, the sublumbar mass being of recent and 
rapid growth. 
Pathological Contributions. 
SERIOUS LOSS OF CATTLE FROM EATING YEW. 
We regret to state that Mr. John Paxton, the well-known 
agriculturist, of Willingdon, Sussex, has just sustained a 
serious loss of cattle from eating yew. It appears that 
between thirty and forty head of beasts, chiefly, if not 
wholly, consisting of Welsh runts, which had recently cost 
something like £18 a head, were placed by Mr. Paxton at 
agistment in the park at Ratton. They were seen all right 
on Sunday, but on the following morning it was discovered 
that by some means—whether from the gate having been 
left open, or from the fence being defective, does not yet 
appear—a number of the animals had got into an adjoining 
shrubbery, and had eaten freely of the leaves of a yew tree, 
which is a strong irritant poison. Five of the runts lay 
dead, and others quickly followed, before the Messrs. Crow- 
hurst, veterinary surgeons, of Horsebridge, who were quickly 
sent for, could reach the spot. Antidotes were applied with 
beneficial effect in many of the milder cases, but no less than 
fourteen died .-—Sussex Express. 
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 
1869. 
Return of the Number of Places in Great Britain upon 
which contagious or infectious disease (except sheep-scab) 
has been reported to have existed during the week ended 
March 8th, 1879, with particulars relating thereto. 
