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Treland.— Return tn fursuance of the provisions of the 50th 
section of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, for the year 
ended the 31st December, 1899. [Cd. 118. Price 15.] 
This report states that the only contagious cattle disease 
which appeared among Irish herds during 1899 was anthrax, 
two cases of which occurred in Antrim. With regard to 
Swine Fever, the low level of outbreaks reached in 1898 was 
practically maintained in 1899, 321 outbreaks being confirmed 
against 319 in the previous year, and this notwithstanding the 
fact that in the latter year the stock of swine kept in the 
country was greater than in the former by almost 110,000 
head, the numbers being 1,253,912 in 1898 and 1,363,311 in 
1899. The very infectious nature of swine fever renders the 
work of suppressing the disease specially difficult, and there 
is, it is considered, definite encouragement in finding thatitis 
now so far held in check that for the past two years the out- 
breaks recorded throughout Ireland have averaged less than 
one per day among a pig population of more than a million 
and a quarter. The outbreaks of rabies were 92, being a 
decrease of 40 cases as compared with the year 1898. Only 
nine outbreaks of glanders occurred during 1899, five of 
which were in Belfast. 
The number of animals exported to Great Britain was 
2,381,338, of which 772,272 were cattle, 871,953 sheep, 688,553 
swine, and 42,087 horses. 

Fudiwcial Statistics —England and Wales, 1898. [Cd. 123. 
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Statistics relating to various non-indictable offences tried 
in Courts of Summary Jurisdiction are given in this 
publication, and amongst these offences it may be noted 
that proceedings were taken against 3,006 persons in 1898 in 
connection with the adulteration of food and drugs, and in 
2,537 Cases a fine was imposed. The number of prosecutions 
tor offences of this character hes steadily increased during 
the past twenty years. Thus in the five years 1879-83 the 
