660 NORTH OF ENGLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
only to apply to such as are specially named in the schedules, viz., 
Schedule 1st comprises glanders, sheep-pox, or variola ovina, and steppe- 
murrain. Schedule 2nd, pleuro-pneumonia and scab. 
After dealing with the public exposure of diseased cattle in such places 
as roads, woods, forests, &c., and the penalties to be enforced, a special 
provision is made for the exposure for sale of such animals that are 
diseased, apart from those deemed healthy. 
It also prohibits the giving of uncooked flesh to swine, under certain 
penalties, and provides for the appointment of officers, inspectors, and so 
forth. 
The deficiencies of the Bill, as a legislative enactment, appear to be 
briefly these. While it makes provisions for the recognition of certain 
diseases as being contagious or infectious, no notice is made of, or pro¬ 
vision for, such diseases that may in future arise of either character, or 
diseases which may take on a contagious or infectious nature; also, while 
it prohibits the exposure of diseased cattle on roads, commons, or in 
woods, fields, stables, railway trucks and stations, &c., and open markets, 
it legalises the sale of the same in markets or places which are set apart 
for the purpose; and lastly, it wholly exempts from its supervision that 
fearful scourge, foot-and-mouth disease. As far as I may judge, this is 
a great omission, believing that the losses which accrue to the owner 
from its effects, are scarcely paralleled by any other—even pleuro¬ 
pneumonia itself. True it is, the owner in the latter case invariably 
loses the animal, while in the former diseases a death is a rare occurrence; 
but there are losses of this kind: 
The loss of sale, which is a loss of money; 
A loss of condition, which is a loss of money; 
A loss of season,'which is a loss of money; 
A loss of grass, which is a loss of money ; 
A loss of time, which is a loss of money ; 
Besides there is a great liability of all others, which are brought after¬ 
wards, being rendered similarly unprofitable ; and together with the na¬ 
tural suspicion which prevails for some time afterwards with respect to his 
stock, adds considerably to the owner’s losses from the causes mentioned. 
I am indebted to my friend Mr. Hunting for the following facts in 
relation to this fearful disease : 
“ Dear Wilkinson, —Herewith I send you a short account of a few 
cases of ‘‘murrain,” which have occurred in my practice this year. 
Appended to each is an approximation of the loss, by expenses, &c., it 
entails upon the owners of the affected stock. 
“ Case 1 . —Mr. Ora Wood, Seaham, a tenant of Lady Londonderry, 
keeps about thirty cows, all in high condition, being a new-milk seller. 
Average worth of each animal £20. 
“ This farmer bought a new calving cow at Newcastle market, which 
showed symptoms of the disease on the sixth day after coming home. This 
was not a very severe case; but one of the quarters became affected, 
being inflamed and indurated, causing much loss, not only of milk, but 
condition. Within a week eight others contracted the disease, two of 
which were very severe cases, one suffering mostly from the feet and 
irritative fever; the other from feet and udder also, two quarters of 
which became indurated. The disease went through all the stock on the 
farm, including several steers and queys. One of the steers, a two-year- 
old died, the hoofs separating from the vascular structures. 
“ Mr. Wood estimated his loss from this attack of murrain at not less 
than £70 or £80. 
