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kets ; and eighteen days afterwards, when the next
Order appeared, the mischief was still further increased
by the power which was given to inspectors
to visit the dairies of London, and thus to spread
the malady by carrying it from infected into healthy
localities. Nay, more, it was ordered that all
animals dying of the disease, or slaughtered on
account of it, should be buried, if practicable, on the
premises where they had died or had been killed; but
as this was not practicable in the densely populated
districts of London, the animals were conveyed to
the nearest slaughter-house or knacker's yard,
where they were disposed of without any precautions
whatever, and where the dung, which is the most
infectious product, was cast upon the common heap
and used as manure. It is hardly possible to conceive
a more certain means of propagating the disease ;
and the practice is so reprehensible that it is not
surprising it should be a subject of public comment.
Dr. Fiirstenberg, a professor in the Royal
Academy of Eldena, said in a communication to the
limes of the 26th of September last, that to his
astonishment there were knackers close to the high
road to the Metropolitan Cattle Market, to which
dead animals are brought in an open cart, emitting
discharges in all directions. I have dissected some
within a few yards of such a road, and what has
astonished me more than all was, the animals had
died at the Royal Veterinary College, and been
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