6056 THE LONDON tfOYEMBEft 22, 1898.

DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 AMD 1896. RETURN of OUTBREAKS of SWINE-FEVER for the Week ended November 19th, 1898, distinguishing Counties (including Boroughs*).

Swine Swine 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 .. ., .. 98 1 1 Chester 2 53 Sussex, Eastern Division 1 25 1 4 „ Western Division 1 Durham 2 55 Warwick 1 13 Essex ...... 4 159 Wilts • ... 1 • 2 Gloucester 3 75 Worcester 1 1 8 York, East Biding ... 27 Kent ...... 4 36 „ North Biding ... 2 59 Lancaster 3 51 „ West Biding ... 2 . 20 Leicester ... 8 Lincoln, Parts of Holland 2 72 WALES. Middlesex 1 17 Denbigh 1 22 Norfolk 3 72 Flint 1 7 Northampton 2 16 Notts 1 3 SCOTLAND. Salop ...... 1 2 Fife 1 3 i 13 Stafford 2 9 TOTAL 46 930

* 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. and also comprising the borough of Carnarvon THE following Areas are now Areas Infected (25 March, 1898). with Swine-Fever tinder the above-mentioned Devon.—An Area comprising the parishes of St. Acts:-— Budeaux, Egg Buckland, and Weston Peverell or Pennycross, in the county of Devon, and and .—An Area also comprising the boroughs of Devonport, and comprising the petty sessional division of Wel- Plymouth (23 June, 1898). lingborough, and the parishes of Raunds, and Kent.'-An Area comprising the petty sessional Hargrave, in the county of Northampton, and division of Ramsgate,. together with the parish of also comprising the parishes of Shelton, Dean, Sarre and any other place which is included in Y el den, , Knotting, Riseley, the liberty of a Cinque Port, and is situate , , , , within or to the north of that division, the petty Odell, Harrold, and the detached part of Blet- sessional division of Wingham except the soe, in the county of (4 November,. parishes of Bishops bourne, Kingston, Barham, 1898). Womenswold, Denton, Wootton, Sibertswold, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.—An Area com- Coldred, Lydden, Temple Ewell, Whitfield, prising the parishes of Bray, and Cookham,and River, Poulton, Houghton-Without, Guston, the municipal borough of Maidenhead, in the East Langdon, West Cliffe, Oxney, and St. county of Berks, and also comprising the petty ° Margaret at Cliffe), and the boroughs of Margate, sessional divisions of the Hundred of Stoke, the Ramsgate, and Sandwich (15 October, 1898). Hundred of Desborough (First Division), and Lincolnshire.—An Area in the Parts of Holland the Hundred of Desborough (Second Division), Division of Lincolnshire, comprising the and the parishes of Wooburn, Boveney, Burn- petty sessional division of Elloe, and the ham, Dorney, Farnham Royal, Hedgerley parishes of Surfleet, Quadring, Donington, Dean, Hitcham, and Taplow, in the county of Bicker, Swineshead, Simon Weir, Wigtoft, Buckingham, and also comprising the borough Drainage Marsh, Gosbertou, Sutterton, Algar- of Chepping (or High) Wycombe (10 February. kirk, and Fosdyke, and the lands common to 1898). the parishes of Swineshead and Wigtoft (8 Carmarthenshire. — An Area comprising the November, 1898). parishes of Conwil-EIvet, Llanpumsaint, Llan- Middlesex.—An Area in the county of Middlesex llawddog, Abernant, Merthyr, Newchureh, and comprising the petty sessional divisions of Brent- Abergwili, in the county of Carmarthen, and ford, and Spelthorne ; and the petty sessional also comprising the borough' of Carmarthen division of Uxbridge (except the parishes of (5 November, 1898). Harefield, and Ruislip) (25 May, 1898). Carnarvonshire.—-Art Area comprising the parishes Montgomeryshire.—An Area comprising the of Pentir, Llanddeiniolen, Llanfair-is-gaer, petty sessional division of Pool (Upper Llanrug, Llanfaglan, Waenfawr, Llanberis, Division) and the municipal borough of Welsh- Llanwnda, Bettws Gannon, Llandwrog, Llan- pool, in the county of Montgomery (7 September, llyfni, and Clynnog, in the county of Carnarvon, 1898).