§ Captain ELLIOTasked the Minister of Agriculture what is the number of outbreaks per annum of foot-and-mouth disease from the year in which they are first recorded separately to the present
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Years. Counties. Outbreaks. Animals attacked. Cattle. Sheep. Swine. Other animals. 1877 … 55 858 5,640 7,405 2,099 — 1878 … 45 235 912 8,609 245 — 1879 … 29 137 261 15,681 5 — 1880 … 38 1,461 20,918 9,572 1,886 2 1881 … 49 4,833 59,484 117,152 6,330 80 1882 … 49 1,970 23,973 11,412 2,564 1 1883 … 75 18,732 219,289 217,492 24,332 32 1884 … 56 949 12,186 14,174 1,860 1 1885 … 10 30 354 34 30 — 1886 … 1 1 10 — — — 1887 … — — — — — — 1888 … — — — — — — 1889 … — — — — — — 1890 … — — — — — — 1891 … — — — — — — 1892 … 15 95 1,248 3,912 107 — 1893 … 2 2 30 — — — 1894 … 3 3 7 261 — — 1895 … — — — — — — 1896 … — — — — — — 1897 … — — — — — — 1898 … — — — — — — 1898 … — — — — — — 1899 … — — — — — — 1900* … 9 21 214 50 2 — 1901 … 3 12 43 626 — — 1902 … 1 1 2 118 — — 1903 … — — — — — — 1904 … — — — — — — 1905 … — — — — — — 1906 … — — — — — — 1907 … — — — — — — 1908 … 1 3 112 — — — 1909 … — — — — — — 1910 … 1 2 13 — 2 — 1911 … 5 19 102 312 73 — 1912 … 16 83 512 40 93 — 1913 … 2 2 73 — — — 1914 … 8 27 141 — 25 — 1915 … 3 56 557 5 140 — 1916 … 1 1 24 — — — 1917 … — — — — — — 1918 … 1 3 14 — — — 1919 … 12 75 †1,548 †1,199 †708 †8 1920 … 22 93 †2,376 †8,283 †l,000 ‡6 1921 … 12 40 778 1,526 387 ‡3 * The figures in 1900 and subsequent years relate to outbreaks confirmed. † Slaughtered as diseased or as having been exposed to infection—the number attacked cannot be stated. ‡ Goats. day; and what number of cattle, sheep and pigs respectively have been annually affected?