5486 THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1900.

DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 AND 1896. RETURN of OUTBREAKS of SWINE-FEVER for the Week ended September 1st, 1900, distinguishing Counties (including Boroughs*).

Swine Bwine • Slaughtered Slaughtered as Diseased as Diseased County. Outbreaks or as having County. Outbreaks or as having confirmed. been ex- confirmed. been ex- posed to posed to Infection. Infection.

ENGLAND, No. No. . No. No. Buckingham 2 31 Somerset 2 27 Chester 1 2 Stafford 1 61 1 2 Suffolk 1 2 3 2 Wilts 3 12 Hereford 1 1 York, West Biding 1 10 Hertford 1 0»« Huntingdon 1 .0* WALES. Lancaster 5 28 Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey 1 1 Glamorgan 1 • •• Norfolk 2 3 2 9 TOTAL ...... 29 * 186

* For convenience Berwick-upon-Tweed is considered to be in Northumberland, Dudley is con- sidered to be in Worcestershire, Stockport is considered to be in Cheshire, and the city of London is considered to be in the county of London.

SWINE-FEVER INFECTED AREAS. Gloucester, Stroud, Whitrainster, Horsley, THE following Areas are now Areas Infected Dursley, and Berkeley, and the borough of with Swine-Fever under tbe above-mentioned Tewkesbury, in the administrative county of Acts:— Gloucester; and also comprising the borough of Gloucester (23 May, 1900). .—An Area comprising the parishes of (2.) An Area comprising the petty sessional , Southill, , Dun toil, divisions of Lawford's Gate and Sod bury, in the Edworth, , , , Langford, administrative county of Gloucester (6 July, , Upper , , Clifton, 1900). Shefford, Sheffprd Hardwick, Carapton, and Priory, in the administrative county Hampshire and Sussex.—An Area comprising the of (5 July, 1900). petty sessional divisions of Chichester and Cheshire.—(1.) An Area comprising the parishes Arundel, the detached portions of the petty of Liscard, Poulton-cum-Seacomb, Wallasey, sessional division of Worthing, and the borough Bidston-cum-Ford, and Noctorum, in the of Chichester, in the administrative county of administrative county of Chester; and also West Sussex; and also comprising the petty comprising the borough of Birkeohead (9 May, sessional divisions of Fareham (except the 1900). parishes of Wickham, Boarhnnt, Fareham, Tilchfield, Hook-with-Warsach, Sarisbury, (2.) An Area comprising the pelt) sessional Crofion, Rowner, and Alverstoke), and the divisions of Chester Castle, Eddisbury, Broxton, parishes of Hambledon, Catherington, Clanfield, Nantwich, and Middlewich and Sand bach, in the Chalton, Bleodworth, and Idsworth, in the administrative county of Chester ; and also com- administrative county of Southampton ; and also prising the boroughs of Chester, Crewe, and comprising the borough of Portsmouth (28 June, Congleton (4 July, 1900). 1900). Devonshire.—An Area comprising the parishes of Lympston, Withycomle Raleigh, East Bud- Lancashire.—An Area comprising the petty leigh, Budleigh Salterton, and Littlebam, in the sessional divisions of Wigan (except.the parish administrative county of Devon (21 May, 1900). of Haigh), Leigh, Warrington, St. Helens, Childwall, Prescot, Kirkdale (except the parish •An Area comprising the parishes of of Garston), Ormskirk, South port, Kirkham, Broadway, Eadipole, Chickerell, Fleet, and and Amounderness, and the parishes of Inskip- Wyke Regis, in the administrative county of with-Sowerby, Hyerscough, and Bilsborrow, in Dorset, and also comprising the borough of the administrative county of Lancaster; and also Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (\\July, 1900). comprising the boroughs of Wigan, Leigh, Warrington, Widnes, St. Helens, Southport, Flintshire.—An Area comprising the petty ses- Blackpool, and Preston (2 July, 1900). . eional divisions of Hawarden (except the de- tached portion) and Hope, in the administrative Somersetshire.-^An Area comprising the petty ses- county of Flint (26 May, 190Q). sional divisions of Axbridge, Wells, Shepton Mallet, Kilmersdon, Frome, and Wincanton Gloucester shire.—(1.) An Area comprising the and the boroughs of Glastonbury and Wells, in petty sessional divisions of Tewkesbury (except the administrative county of'Somerset (29 June, the parishes of Twyning and Forthampton), 1900).