PLEURO-PNEUMONIA ABROAD. 9 



present has lost twenty-two out of a herd of thirty-five ; and a few 

 weeks ago I was consulted hy a farmer who had lost twelve out of 

 twenty, and now the disease has appeared among his young stock. The 

 number of deaths in these instances is appalling, and the loss, directly 

 and indirectly, cannot be estimated at less than £900 or £1,000. 



" The plague has drained the pockets of farmers and dairymen of 

 thousands sterling ; but thank Providence we are now free of the 

 disease in this country. Pleuro-pneumonia has drained our pockets of 

 millions of pounds, and she is still in our midst, the great enemy of our 

 stock. ***** u se the means I have indicated, and the 

 means which the plague has taught us to be of benefit in controlling 

 contajrious diseases, and if the contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle 

 now decimating our stock is not thereby extinguished — ' stamped out ' 

 — its operations will be so curtailed, that the losses resulting to stock- 

 holders from the presence of the disease will sit light upon them." 



Prof. Simonds, in his introductory address, delivered at the 

 Veterinary College in London, in October, says : — 



" Prom this time the disease called rinderpest spread in all directions, 

 the attacks gradually rising until they reached, in the week ending Feb- 

 ruary 17th, 1866, the alarming number of 15,706. The first order in 

 council was dated July 14th, 1865, and from that period until now, 

 order has succeeded order, with more or less influence in checking the 

 progress of the malady, and providing for the altered state of things 

 arising out of its existence. 



" The passage of the Cattle Plague Act was, however, the real cause 

 of the diminution of the cases which has since taken place, and which 

 emboldens us to hope that ere long the disease will be entirely extermi- 

 nated. For the first time in the history of the visitation, the attacks 

 were returned as under 100 for the week ending September 1st, 99 

 being the exact number reported by the inspectors." ***** 



He quotes from the official returns the amount of loss which 

 England herself, apart from other parts of Great Britain, has 

 sustained. 



"The total attacks are returned as 198,406. The animals killed, (dis- 

 eased,) amount to 77,508 ; those which died to 90,415 ; the recovered to 

 21,589 ; and the unaccounted for to 8,894. Besides which, no less than 

 38,356 have been slaughtered healthy, to prevent the spread of the 

 malady. These figures are truly formidable ; but they fail to show a 

 tithe part of the distress and ruin which has been brought on hundreds 

 of industrious farmers and cattle-owners by this dreadful visitation." 

 2 



