THE present epizootic of foot-and-mouth disease in England has once more directed attention to the enormous financial losses which a disease of this kind may entail. Up to the middle of March 96,429 ocattle, 35,936 sheep, 44,445 pigs, and 119 goats had been slaughtered, and a total gross amount of compensation had been paid, or is payable, of 3,082,000 in the efforts of the authorities to stem the tide of the invasion. At the same time, the estimated amount of administrative expenses runs into half a million pounds. The tragic thing, however, is that, this holocaust notwithstanding, the epizootic has not been stamped out oor even effectively checked, and it is not improbable that it will have to be left to run out its course, as has happened on more than one occasion before.