402 SHEEP ROT— tHE FLUKE EPIDEMIC IN SUSSEX. 
there were no symptoms for thirty-six hours, and in nine 
cases for sixty hours. In one case three days elapsed, in 
five cases six days, and in three cases the symptoms were 
so slight that no notice was taken of the commencement. 
Age seems to have had some effect, for children were much 
less severely attacked than adults, which is contrary to what 
might have been expected. Some of the pork used in 
making the sausages is said to have been salted, and pro¬ 
bably of foreign origin. 
We may remark here, in respect of the symptoms described, 
that most of them did not indicate trichinosis at all; that 
Trichinae do not cause any disturbance to their host a few 
hours after they have been swallowed; and, lastly, that all 
the symptoms might have been expected to arise from the 
consumption of bad sausages, without the influence of the 
Trichinae, which are said to have been found only in certain 
portions of them, unless, indeed, they were Trichinae of a 
sort which have not yet come under the notice of helmintho¬ 
logists. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
SHEEP ROT.—THE FLUKE EPIDEMIC IN SUSSEX. 
At the West Sussex Quarter Sessions, on Thursday, April 
8th, Sir W. Barttelot, M.P., brought under the notice of the 
Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who was present, the subject 
of the fluke in sheep and cattle. So many animals had been 
lost through the disease that many people were of opinion 
that the disease was absolutely catching; yet nothing had 
been devised to prevent the spread of the disease; and now, 
at the present critical time, it was devastating ihe flocks and 
herds of the country. There was hardly a bullock went into 
market without a fluke, and as for the sheep, there was 
hardly a sound one to be found in any market. As an 
instance of this, one had only to visit the Horsham market 
on the previous day, where sheep were selling at 1 3s,, 15,?,, 
and l6>. each. This, in these years of depression, was a 
