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young lambs which had been born in the College, and were still living 
entirely on the milk of their dam. 
On opening the purchased ewe, the liver was found to be extensively 
diseased, and the biliary ducts to be filled with fully matured flukes. 
Fifty of the flukes, whose generative organs were distended with per¬ 
fected ova, were selected, and twenty-jive of them given to each lamb in 
a little milk. 
The lambs were kept with the ewe, and carefully watched day by day. 
No ill effects were observed. 
On July 25th, five weeks and five days after the flukes had been 
given, one of the lambs was killed. The liver was found to be perfectly 
healthy, and not the slightest indication of a fluke having entered the 
biliary ducts existed. Every other organ also of the body was in a 
healthy condition. 
August 6th.—Killed the other lamb, which, like the first one, was 
entirely free from disease, and not a single fluke, young or old, or any 
ova, were to be detected. 
The Committee had received from the local authority of Cumberland 
the following copy of a letter addressed to the Veterinary Department 
of the Privy Council: 
Clerk of the Peace’s Office, Carlisle, October 30th. 
Sir, —At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Local 
Authority of Cumberland, held this day, I was directed to make a 
representation to the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council, 
setting out that the County of Cumberland had been free from pleuro¬ 
pneumonia from the month of May last until the 22nd of this month; 
that on that day a cargo of about 370 cattle were landed at Silloth in 
this county from Ireland, ex Caledonia steamer. 
That Mr. Bell, the veterinary inspector of the said Local Authority, 
examined the cattle, and found one heifer stirk suffering from disease 
which he believed to be pleuro-pneumonia, and which animal, by his 
direction, was detained by the police. That the said animal died the 
following day (Saturday the 23rd October), and that he made a post¬ 
mortem examination, and found that it had died of pleuro-pneumonia. 
A copy of his report has been already forwarded to the Privy Council. 
The remainder of the cattle landed from the same vessel were removed 
from Silloth by train to Carlisle and Northumberland, and some of them 
which had been in actual contact with the animal which died were sold 
on Carlisle Sands. The attention of the Privy Council having been 
called to this matter, an answer was received from them, stating that 
the attention of the Irish Government had been called to the case by 
the Privy Council. 
I have further to state that on the 26th of this mouth Mr. Bell again 
attended at Silloth, and examined 314 cattle brought from Ireland by 
the same vessel, when he found seven of them without any official brand 
of inspection upon them. 
That this day (the 30th October) he again attended at Silloth, and 
examined 136 cattle and 72 pigs, brought over by the same vessel and 
that four of the cattle were without any official brand, and this, on 
both the last-named days, after the special attention of the Irish 
Government had been called to the lax examination of their officials. 
The local authority, under these circumstances, and considering the 
danger which must arise from animals suffering from the disease being 
moved about the county, would press upon the Privy Council the pro¬ 
priety, if not the necessity, of making an order, giving the local authority 
