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health, as, for example, those which were taken to L, Guttentag, in the circle 

 of Lubliaitz, and to Blazeiowitz, in the circle of Tost-Gleiwitz, but others of 

 them became the subjects of the disease. 



" The Government District of Breslau, 



" Eight oxen were brought to the domain or estate of Fiirstenau, circle of 

 Neumarkt, and were put into a stable with some other cattle. In a few days 

 the eight oxen fell ill, and, on the disease being rec(fc;nised as the rinderpest, 

 they were immediately slaughtered. They had, however, already infected 

 the others, and, on several becoming diseased, the whole herd, consisting of 

 twenty-one animals, was likewise slaughtered. On the same estate there 

 were eight?/ cows, but these were living in other sheds, and did not come in 

 contact with the diseased animals ; and, moreover, in the same village there 

 are upwards of one hundred cattle-owners, but the whole of the cattle were 

 preserved by the summary measures had recourse to. The sanitary cordon 

 dra^vm around the estate was removed twelve days since ; three weeks having 

 elapsed since the last case, and everything used about the animals being dis- 

 infected. 



" The Government District of Oppeln. 



" 1. Twenty oxen were brought into the estate of Schwieben, in the circle of 

 Tost-Gleiwitz, and on their arrival they were distributed to the different 

 stations (farms) of the estate. The disease also broke out among these animals, 

 and, as tliey sickened, they were removed to a station where only sheep were 

 kept, and here slaughtered. A military cordon was also drawn around the 

 place. Notwithstanding this precaution, the disease spread ; thus — 



" a. Ill Schwieben one ox was attacked, and he, with another with which 

 he was standing, was immediately killed. The further progress of the disease 

 Avas at once arrested, although there were 120 head of other cattle on the estate, 

 and in the village also al)out a hundred cattle-owners. 



" b. Station liadun. — An ox which showed premonitoiy symptoms was 

 immediately killed, together with another that he was standing next to, and 

 no other cases have occurred. 



" c. Station Wisclmitz. — The appearance of the rinderpest at this station 

 is very remarkable. It appears that either four or six of the Podolian oxen 

 were sent here and remained for a few days. These animals gave no evidence 

 of being affected, but twenty days after their departure one animal of a herd 

 of 19 that they had been placed with fell ill with the disease, and the whole 

 were forthwith slaughtered. 



" 2. Estate Ponischowitz. — Twenty Podolian oxen came here on the same 

 occasion, and they within a few days gave indications of being affected. Like 

 the others, also, they had been put with other cattle, 49 in number. On 

 the occurrence of the outbreak the whole were killed, so that not a single 

 head of cattle was left on the estate. The place was likewise surrounded by a 

 military cordon ; but while the disease was going on, a carpenter's apprentice, 

 employed on the estate, escaped the vigilance of the guards, and went to his 

 father's house, which was distant about two thousand paces. While there he 

 repaired a manger in his father's cow-shed, and also changed the clothes he 

 had worn at Ponischowitz. The rinderpest in consequence of this broke out 

 among his father's cattle. The whole were thereupon killed, and a military 

 cordon drawn around the premises. It is now ten days since the animals were 

 slaughtered. 



" 3. At Slupsho, four of the Podolian oxen sent here were attacked. 

 They were likewise slaughtered, and the further progress of the disease arrested. 

 The cordmi has been raised here four weeks ; the place having been previously 

 disinfected. 



