Description
1882 PRINTED POSTER 'COUNTY OF WILTS/Contagious Diseases/SWINE FEVER' MALMESBURY TO MARLBOROUGH. A very fine printed poster, 246 x 366, entitled 'COUNTY OF WILTS./The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878./THE ANIMALS ORDER./NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That a Pigstie, and Garden, at Corston, in the Parish of St. Paul Malmesbury, in the County of Wilts, in the occupation of Mrs E. SLADE, lately declared to be places Infected WITH SWINE FEVER, are for the purposes of the above Act, ordered, determined, and declared to be FREE FROM SWINE FEVER. .... Marlborough, September 22nd, 1882.'. Poster addressed to 'The Clerk of the Peace, Marlborough' with ½d pale green (SG165) tied slightly indistinct '192' numeral of Malmesbury. Fine and unusual. (Ref 137315).
