With record to this disease, I consider that the principal channel of infection is through those animals that are brought into Shanghai for slaughter. These, both before and after arriving here, run ao enormous risk of contracting the disease themselves or contaminating those in the country through which they travel. We may consider that practically the whdle of the cattle come down by boat from country that is known' to. bay periodically, outbreaks of the disease, are landed' at Jessfield and from are taken across country to Pah-si where they are purchased by butchers and at their convenience sent 1 Isolation Sheds in Hongkew. 'These beasts, therefore, sometimes remain a considerable time at Pah-sion-jue. This part of the settlement is also the home of the grease-shops and slaughter houses that supply meat to the lowest class of Chinese, who consume' it whether it is diseased or nut. If say animal is sick, suspected of being ea, or dies, this is the quarter to which it is sent. Animals, from buffalo to goats, ponies, or donkeys, are all utilised here.' "Should rinderpest break out, this is where Une sick and dead are sent into the midst of those ready for the butcher. The Inspector of Markets has often noticed beasts to be suspiciously sick at the Isolation Sheds and ordered them to be immediately slaughtered; and I have seen at the slaughter houses the stomachs of Deasts that have undoubtedly been suitoring from rinderpest when slaughtered. From this I think perfectly fair to draw a conclusion that this is the principal means by which the disease is introduced here, and in support of which is the fact that in both cases in which it has made its appearance since last October it has been in the same dairy within fifty yards of the Isolation Sheds. (It is admitted that it can be carried by the air for a distance of 75 yards.)
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