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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
CONVICTION FOR DRIVING- A GLANDERED HORSE. 
Downham Petty Sessions, March 17th. 
Jonathan Clifton , of Downham Market, carrier, &c., was 
charged by Superintendent "Watson with driving on the highway 
a certain mare affected with the contagious or infectious disease 
of glanders. Superintendent Watson, on March 14th, went to a 
stable on the Lynn road, occupied by Gammard, and there saw a 
mare which he believed to he suffering from glanders, and charged 
the defendant with having caused the mare to be driven through 
the streets of Downham. 
Mr. B. H. Calver, the inspector under the Contagious Diseases 
(Animals) Act, saw the defendant’s mare in his yard, on March 
13th, and told him at once it was suffering from glanders, which 
was incurable, and told him to take it to his own stable till he 
heard from witness, and at the same time he explained to him the 
consequences of exposing the animal. Defendant’s stables were 
in Parson’s Lane, and it could be taken there with less danger 
than it could to Gammard’s stables. 
Henry Gammard said he bought the mare of defendant for a 
sovereign unseen. Defendant said she would not do his work. 
On Friday evening last, about eight o’clock, defendant brought 
the mare, and put it into his stable. Later in the evening Mr. 
Calver and Superintendent Watson came to the stable, and in 
consequence of what they said he shot the mare next day. 
Defendant was fined £1 and costs 26s. 6d. 
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. 
Eegware Petty Sessions. 
Alfred Thrupp was charged with having four sheep affected 
with the scab, and unlawfully neglecting to give the necessary 
notice to the police, and further with keeping them in a place in¬ 
sufficiently fenced. Defendant’s wife pleaded guilty. 
Charles Offer, veterinary inspector for Kilburn district, stated 
that on the 3rd of February he saw some sheep affected with scab 
in Mr. Furness’s field at Harlesden, and he ascertained they be¬ 
longed to Mr. Thrupp, an adjoining occupier, and had strayed 
into Mr. Furness’s field. He subsequently saw the sheep at Mr. 
Thrupp’s, and informed Mrs. Thrupp that the law required the 
owner to have the sheep properly treated and kept on his own 
premises. The sheep were slaughtered the next day. 
Mrs. Thrupp said her husband did not occupy a farm; they 
