216 Report on Steppe Murram or Rinderpest. 



importation of horned cattle from abroad will not, until further notice, be 

 permitted into the duchies of Holstein and Lauenhur;:, unless satisfactory 

 certificates, issued by authority, be handed in at the same time, stating the place 

 from whence the cattle have been brought, and that in such place no signs of 

 the pulmonary epidemic have appeared for more than six months, the cattle 

 being therein described as accurately as possible. 



The above is hereby made known for the information and guidance of those 

 who receive it ; and at the same time the police authorities are especially 

 directed to see to the strict observance of the above order. 



Royal Ministerial Department for the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg^ 

 9th June, 1856. 



(Signed) V. Scheele. 



G. Harbou. 



Pleuro-pneumonia, however, continued to prevail in Holstein^ 

 despite all the measures precautionary or otherwise, which were 

 had recourse to, and this led the minister to issue new regulations 

 during last year, to stay if possible its further progress. It was 

 thereupon ordered that " all estates (farms) in which cases of jml- 

 monary disease had occurred xoithin the last six months, are to he 

 closed, and no removal of cattle from such estates is to be permitted. 

 The cattle are to remain as much as possible in the same stalls, and 

 only to be removed to the pasture yrounds of the oicners, ivhich are 

 to he fenced round to the exclusion of all other cattle, as it is deemed 

 necessary to remove cattle from their infected stalls to purer air.''^ 



In July, 1856, SCHLESWIG placed the importations into her 

 territory ifrom Holstein under restrictions, but as these also proved 

 to be insufficient the minister of this Duchy, in March of the 

 present year, forbad the importations entirely. 



In August, 1856, Denmark, by the Minister of the Interior^ 

 likewise ordered that no cattle sliouhl be permitted to enter the 

 kingdom from Holstein, unless they were accompanied by a cer- 

 tificate of a veterinary surgeon, stating that they were in good 

 health when exported, and also by the certificate of a magistrate^ 

 that the district from which they came was free from disease. 

 And In September following proclamation was made to a similar 

 effect by " the Senator of the District of the Marshlands of Ham- 

 burg," a copy of which has been given In the preceding page. 



This succinct history of the proceedings of foreign govern- 

 ments enables us to trace to their probable origin those restric- 

 tive laws Avhich have created so great solicitude in England. 

 We could hardly have supposed that such severe measures would 

 have had tlie support of scientific men, more especially in their 

 exclusive application to a disease, whether contagious or not, 

 the antecedents of whose history show that It often passes from 

 country to country as an ordinary epizootic affection. Without 

 Avisliing to animadvert on the opinions of others, we hold that 

 an equal amount of good would attend measures far less stringent ; 

 and if this be so, then a positive injury is inflicted on the country 



