238 Report on Steppe JMurrain or Rinderpest. 



their cattle speedily, the district authorities are empowered to order the pay- 

 ment to be made out of the district funds, and to duly inform the superior 

 authorities of the same. 



"4. To estimate the true value of the cattle ordered to he slaughtered by the 

 commission, the local authorities, as well as the sworn valuers, will have to 

 take into consideration the market value, age, and breed of every animal sub- 

 mitted to them. 



" 5. AVith regard to the cattle which have teen killed as suspected, but which 

 are found on a sectio cadaveris to be perfectly free from the disease, the flesh 

 of the same may be used for food, and the hide, horns, and tallow as articles 

 of commerce. Of those also which were known to l^e affected by the pest, or 

 %\ere discovered to be diseased on the making of the post mortem examination, 

 the horns, fat, and hides ma)4be used for commercial purposes, but only on 

 the regulations framed for that end being strictly complied with, and it is 

 ordained that in these instances the parts shall be valued and deduction made 

 from the amount to be paid to the proprietors, 



" The attention of the local authorities and veterinary police is specially 

 directed to this point. 



" Lastly. It is ordered that these fresh directions of the district government 

 upon the necessity of the slaughtering of cattle to prevent the spreading of the 

 rinderpest be in force from the present time. 



" Lemherg, 17 September, 1850." 



Immediately on the receipt of the letters of introduction from 

 Count Clam Martinitz, we set forward on our journey to Neu 

 Sandec, in company with Professor Nicklas, of the Veterinary 

 School at Munich, whom we had previously met at Berlin, and 

 who had been sent by the authorities of Bavaria on a similar mis- 

 sion to ourselves. Arriving at Neu Sandec, our first business 

 was to wait upon the President of the department, who referred 

 us to the district physician for the latest particulars as to the 

 precise location of the disease, as the week's report had not yet 

 reached his office. 



It may be as well here to observe that in this part of the Austrian 

 dominions there are no scientifically-educated veterinary surgeons, 

 and that from the frequent occurrence of epizootic diseases both 

 physicians and surgeons are appointed by the Government as 

 inspectors of the health of cattle, and to act also as commissioners 

 of veterinary sanitary police during the prevalence of these affec- 

 tions. To fit them for this purpose, they have to make this class 

 of maladies their special study, and subsequently to undergo an 

 examination as a test of their competency. 



By the district physician we were placed in communication 

 with M. Carl Zankel, surgeon and commissioner of Alt Sandec, 

 who received instructions to accompany us forthwith to the different 

 places where the disease existed, and to proceed in the first 

 instance to a village called Liidowica, lying at the foot of the 

 high range of the Carpathian mountains, where a case had just 



