DREADED CATTLE DISEASE.
SPREADING IN ENGLAND,
SLAUGHTER OF STOCK.
Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn t (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, February 8. Mr, Boscawen, in the House of Commons, stated that the numbers slaughtered owing to foot and mouth disease were 8500 cattle, 30,000 sheep, and 2500 pigs. The cattle' slaughtered amounted to only one-eighth per cent, of the country’s total. . The Board believed that slaughtering, which was successfully adopted in the United States in 1914-15, was the only sure dire. Foot and mouth disease has reached London. There was an outbreak in the cattle yards adjoining Islington market. Apparently the infection is from Essex.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15746, 10 February 1922, Page 3
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106DREADED CATTLE DISEASE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15746, 10 February 1922, Page 3
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