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The London Gazette
September 14, 1888

(Pleuro-Pneumonia)
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th day of September, 1888.

By Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

The Lords and others of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in them vested under The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, 1878 to 1886, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1. The Area described in the Schedule to this Order is hereby declared to be an Area infected with pleuro-pneumonia.
2. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
Herbert M. Suft.

Schedule.
1.The following Area (namely),- in the county of Lancaster, comprised within the following boundaries, that is to say, on the north-east Nelson-road from Finsley Farm in the township of Marsden to Haggate in the township of Briercliffe, on the south and south-east Burnley-road from Haggate to Cop Row, on the west the boundary of the township of Burnley, and thence by a fence on Green Pasture Farm and Finsley Farm to Nelson-road aforesaid,-which was declared by Order of Council dated the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, to be an Area infected with pleuro-pneumonia, is hereby declared to be free from pleuro-pneumonia, and that Area shall, as from the commencement of this Order, cease to be an Area infected with pleuro-pneumonia.
2. This Order shall take effect from amd immediately after the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
Herbert M. Suft.

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Mel

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I wonder if it was that epidemic that killed William Pickles on October 23rd 1887, he was only 44 years old, and on his death certificate his cause of death was Pneumonia, he lived at Roggerham Gate, Exctwistle.
Stephanie.

Wouldn't have thought so - as far as I know it's a disease of cattle.

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Maureen
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I did'nt read it properly.
Stephanie.

Hahaha, I typed it and was on your wavelength Stephanie!!

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