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Show Pi rea-PON3 PUirf.K.j CATTLE SLAUGHTERED TO FIGHT DISEASE OUTBREAK i 'rfltPcBBBsl BIRMINGHAM. Eng., Jan. 22. IjWajfl ' What is described as the worst out. niJBBBBBfll break of foot and mouth disease for 30 bsbsbbbbbb! years has occurred among the cattle 9ILsBb1 ln the midland counties. IiVsbbbbbb! The appearance of the -disease was hHiLbbbbI first noticed on December 26 at the IbhIbbbbbbbI central meat market here. A number sbsbsbbbbbbI I Of cattle from country markets were IsbLbbbbbI found to be suffering and were Imme- Kmsbbbbbb! dlately slaughtered but the contagion Hbbbbbbbbb! had already spread. The board of HbLbbbbbb! agriculture has since ordered the dc- shsbIbbbbbbb! structlon of 400 more animals and the sbsssbbbbbb! closing of the market. The midland sbbbLbbbbsI '.counties are scheduled as infected. ILbBbI ! The first recorded case of the pros- ibVbbbbbbb! ent epidemic occurred at Blpon on Hhsbbbbbb! January 9, 1910. Since then, 27 separ- BBsbbbbm ate outbreaka have occurred in as IIbbbbbbI I many different places, not traceably Hl ! connected with each other. nfll |