| Description | Return of animals affected with swine fever and slaughtered under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878. Besides the name and address of the owner of the animal, the description of the animal and where it was slaughtered, it includes the value of the animal, the witness to the slaughtering, and the compensation paid. Includes the animals of:
- Wheatley Snaith of West Huntington, owner of two store pigs slaughtered at West Huntington in Huntington parish on 8 April 1885
- Robert Catton of Herdsman's Cottage, Bootham Stray, York, owner of a breeding pig slaughtered at Herdsman's Cottage, Clifton, on 6 April 1885
- Thomas Winspear of Lady Cottages, Burton Lane, Clifton near York, owner of five store pigs slaughtered at Lady Cottages, Clifton, on 14 May 1885
- George Sootheran of Haxby, owner of two store pigs slaughtered at Haxby in the parish of Haxby on 19 May 1885
- John Bradley of Freemans Brickyard, Malton Road, Heworth, owner of three store pigs slaughtered at Freeman's Brickyard, Heworth, on 21 May 1885
- William Kendra of Back Lane, Haxby, owner of a store pig slaughtered in a pig sty in Haxby parish on 21 May 1885
- Thomas Carbutt of 22 Ambrose Street, Fulford Road, York, owner of two sucking pigs slaughtered at Hornbys Gardens, Clifton, on 28 May 1885
- Richard William Bland of Strensall, owner of a breeding pig slaughtered in a pig sty at Strensall on 8 June 1885
- John Linfoot of 4, King's Court, Shambles, York, and Jonathan Burton of 27 Market Street, York, joint owners of nine store pigs slaughtered in a pig sty in a grass field known as Linfoots Field in the parish of Huntington between 16 March and 4 April 1885. Includes a note that the pigs died, and the owners reported the outbreak. Mr Fawdington, a veterinary surgeon, was called in on four separate occasions to see them, but did not think it was swine fever, but blood poisoning arising from impure food. The owners were dissatisfied with this and called in another veterinary surgeon, who certified that it was swine fever |