The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.B. / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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    THE CATTLE PLAGUE, ETC. To THE Rt. Hon. Sir GEORGE GREY, Bart., G.C.B., SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. Sir,—The national importance of all that relates to the PUBLIC HEALTH, and to the prosperity of agri- culture,—the fact that a part of the subject on which I have undertaken to. address you was very recently brought before Parliament without result beyond a stimulus to inquiry, may, I trust, be in some measure regarded as justification of the course I have adopted, in undertaking to expose a system, actually productive of great calamity and imminently threatening a much greater one,—a cattle plague. It is a fact beyond question that the people are already very largely consuming diseased meat as food ; no less certain is it that the importation of foreign cattle imminently threatens us with the invasion of a plague, which is devast- ating the herds in various parts of the European continent, wliich lias called from the French and B 2