On Friday week an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle
was reported from LiverpooL Within forty- eight hours the appearance of the disease in several other places was announced, and the President of the Board of Agriculture took urgent measures for stamping out this most contagious and malignant disease. The importation of cattle from Ireland, whence the disease had been traced, was at once stopped, and the exhibition of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats at the Royal Agricultural Show at Doncaster was prohibited. The value of the cattle imported from Dublin amounts to f400,000 a week. As for the Royal show it has never pre- sented so forlorn an appearance. But, of course, Mr. Runciman acted quite. rightly. It is unfortunate that the infected ()etas should have been circulated fairly widely before the alarm was given. The chief centres of the disease are Cumberland,. South Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Northumberland.
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