Epidemiology; or, The remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation / by John Parkin.

  • Parkin, John, 1801-1886.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Epidemiology; or, The remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation / by John Parkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    elusion lias been drawn on the subject. It is asserted, and is now generally believed, that the plague was stamped out. That it was not, may be inferred from the arguments advanced in a previous part of this chapter. It is unnecessary, however, to refer to them; the history of this single outbreak is alone sufficient to disprove the assertion. Passing over the first cases—those of the heifer and steer, purchased in the Hull Market, and the miller's two cows and calves—we come to the outbreak among Mr. Berriman's herd. Of twenty-two animals, eight were attacked, seven died, and one was killed: as, also, the re- maining fourteen healthy animals. With this sacrifice we might have presumed, that the plague would have been stamped out. But no. Ten days from the slaughter of Mr. Berriman's herd, the disease appeared among the cattle belonging to Mr.Towse, Mr. Craddock, and Mr. Kirby, at Yapham. On these premises thirty animals were killed. It then appeared at Belthorpe and thirty- nine animals were killed. On the 1st October the plague appeared at Tangfoss, outside the infected district, among Mrs. Bielby's cattle. Ten days after this, it broke out at Mr. Burneby's farm at Garrowby, five miles from Pock- lington and two from any known centre of infection. On October 14th a cow belonging to Mrs. Dale, of Skir- benbeck, two miles from Garrowby, was attacked, and on October 18th, a case occurred at Belthorpe, which has since been followed by two other outbreaks, leading to the destruction of eleven cows and eight calves, besides the animals attacked.* These were not the whole of the outbreaks, as tliere had been no less than twelve on the 21st September—three weeks after Mr. Berriman's herd was attacked—viz., three at Pocklington, two at Brid- lington, two at Sowcrby, five at Patrington, and a doubt-