Report on the geographical distribution of fever ("typhus" of the registrar general) for the two decennial periods 1841-60, 1861-70 within the area of the combined sanitary authorities,in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, Rutland and Bucks., read ... July 11, 1874 / by Alfred Haviland.

  • Northamptonshire Combination of Sanitary Authorities.
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Credit: Report on the geographical distribution of fever ("typhus" of the registrar general) for the two decennial periods 1841-60, 1861-70 within the area of the combined sanitary authorities,in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, Rutland and Bucks., read ... July 11, 1874 / by Alfred Haviland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will be seen on reference to the extract from the “ Herald ’’ of the 6th instant that certain cattle and sheep imported from Jersey, by the way of Southampton by the steamer “ Lepanto “ have been quarantined at this port in accordance with the recent Order of the Treasury Department, on the ground that they have been imported from an infected country. I have, &c. The Most Noble (Signed) E. M. ARCHIBALD. The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. &c. &c. &c. Enclosures in No. 6. “ New York Herald,” March 6, 1879- Cattle Disease in the West. An important contribution to the history of that part of the trade in live cattle whicli has resulted in excluding our dealers from British markets will be found in the letter we publish to-day from our correspondent at St. Louis. It has been a mystery to the general public how pleuro-pneumonia, which did not exist as an epidemic in the great cattle raising districts, and was unknown in the herds sent forward from their native plains for exportation, though it was known to exist in swill-feeding stables from which animals were not exported, yet appeared to such an extent in shipments of American cattle on their arrival at British ports, as to force the English government to make a rule against our cattle. The mystery is now cleared up by the discoveries of “ Herald ” correspondents in Western cities; and once more we have an illustration of the old truth that the ruin of trade is due to dishonest and unscrupulous traders. At Chicago from 8,000 to 12,000 cattle are fed every winter in stalls, to be sent eastward in the spring as fattened stall-fed cattle. How they are fed and how they are kept is a story the record of which is a vivid repetition of the descriptions that have been written of the Blissville stables. But the whole procedure is given in the St. Louis letter we print to-day. It appears that upon the arrival at the stock yards there of a large consignment of Texan cattle the animals in good condition are sold readily and shipped eastward for butchery here or exportation, and that they are sound and healthy. But in every consignment there will be poor specimens—not diseased, perhaps, but half starved, lean and feeble. These, of course, sell at a low rate and are bought by feeders, who put them into swill stables, fatten them up, and then by collusion put them into the sales of fresh cattle from the Plains. Doubt¬ less in those swill stables pleuro-pneumonia exists permanently as in the swill stables here, and the animals remaining long enough to be contaminated are thus sent out as Texas cattle, yet with a disease caught in the swill stables. “ New York Herald,” March 6th, 1 879- Disea sed Cattle.—Professional Slop Feeders in the West.—Fattening Cattle for East.—Kept in Filthy Pens and Fed on Distillery Refuse.— The East St. Louis Supply. St. Louis, March 2, 1879- It has been known for some time that slop-fed and diseased cattle were shipped from this point to the Eastern markets and there disposed of as good conditioned Texas stock. This evil has been steadily growing until it has assumed so startling a magnitude that only prompt and strong measures will enable the authorities to put a stop to it. Your correspondent visited the stock yards at East St. Louis with the view of ascertaining, if possible, the extent of this evil, and the number of cattle that had been held over at this point to fatten for the Eastern market, but, owing to the shrewdness of buyers, the feeding of slops is not carried on in the yards, the owners having found from experience that it materially affects their sales ; consequently a new class has sprung up, called professional feeders, who, to carry on their work more successfully and elude detection, ship the cattle off to out of the way places, re-ship them to the stock yards after putting them through the fattening process and send them East in mixed lots with through shipments, thus preventing even a fair estimate of the number of slop-fed stock that is in this way thrown on the Eastern markets. Beer slops and what is called “ chop ” feeding was carried on to a large extent right in the stock yards until owner's found that it damaged their sales. t