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break of a disease which seems to possess some unusual features, 

 give notice to the district veterinary surgeon, or be subjected to 

 a fine varying from fifty to a hundred thalers. The veterinary 

 surgeon has to report the result of bis examination to the police, 

 and if it should prove that the malady is a contagious one, then 

 the regulations are strictly enforced. The animals are valued on 

 the part of the Government, and branded on the horns for the 

 purpose of identity. Should no other cases occur after the 

 diseased animals are killed, then the proprietor is prevented 

 selling any of those which had been exposed to the contagion, 

 and which bear the Government stamp, in a less period of time 

 than six months, and only then with a certificate from the vete- 

 rinary surgeon that they are free Irom disease. 



The adoption of these severe measures led, it is believed, to 

 the nearly total extinction of pleuro-pneumonia in two or three 

 years. In 1847, however, it again prevailed in Holstein, also com- 

 mencing, it is said, in the neighbourhood of Altona. In 1849 

 and 1851 other outbreaks occurred; the disease extending on 

 the latter occasion into Schleswig and Denmark proper, but was 

 quickly suppressed bv the severity with which the law was executed. 



The outbreak from which the country is at present suffer- 

 ing took place in the spring of 1856, It is attributed to the 

 circumstance of two gentletr.en of Hamburg purchasing in 

 Hungary 180 oxen, and sending them to graze on the islands 

 and marshlands of the Elbe. The disease maniiested itself in 

 these animals, and from them it was communicated to some cows 

 which were sent daily from the town of Hamburg to graze in 

 the same pastures, and was thus spread over the territory and 

 the adjacent portions of Holstein. This called for the re-adoption 

 of the preventive measures previously alluded to, and which are 

 still in operation in the Duchies, but modified to some con- 

 siderable extent in the town and territory ol Hamburg. 



The almost simultaneous appearance of pleuro-pneumonia in 

 Mecklenburg, which is said to have arisen from the introduc- 

 tion of some cattle from Bavaria, together with its existence in 

 several of the German States, led the government to issue the 

 following order with reference to the importation of cattle into 

 Holstein and Lauenburg. 



Legal and Ministerial Journal for the Duchies of Holstein and 



Lauenburg. 



Copenhage)! , 18^/i June, 1856. 



Proclamation for the Duchies of Holsteix aud Lauenburg, ' in 

 reference to the Importatiox of Horned Cattle from abroad. 



Whereas, according to official information, the pulmonary epidemic has 

 recently shown itself again in homed cattle in several GeiTnan States, the 



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