Annual Report of the Agricultural Department, Privy Council Office, on the Contagious Diseases Inspection and Transit of Animals for the Year 1888, with an Appendix
London, HMSO, 1889. British Parliamentary Paper C. 5679 of 1889. The highly detailed and impressive plates illustrate the sections on swine fever, anthrax, tubercular mammitis and actinomycosis bovis ('lumpy jaw'). Reading these reports suggests the rise of vegetarianism in Victorian England was not without good cause. This paper is contained..... More