Report in Steppe Murrain or Rinderpest. 2G9 



from the Rinderpest; and that the only disease of an Epizootic 

 or destructive nature which prevails therein is the one known to 

 us as Pleuro-pneumonia — which disease has existed here since 

 1841. 



2. That in the greater part of the official despatches and 

 reports which have been forwarded to the Government, and by 

 thejn transmitted to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 

 the Rinderpest has been confounded with Pleuro-pneumonia, 

 " Milzbrand," and other destructive maladies to which cattle are 

 liable. 



3. That the Rinderpest is a disease which specially belongs 

 to the Steppes of Russia, from which it frequently extends in the 

 ordinary course of the cattle-trade into Hungary, Austria, Galicia, 

 Poland, &c, 



4. That whenever circumstances have arisen which called for 

 the movements of troops and consequently the transit of large 

 numbers of cattle in Southern and Eastern Europe, and parti- 

 cularly when Russian troops have crossed the frontier of their 

 territory, the disease has been spread over a far greater extent of 

 country. 



5. That the disease which has recently prevailed in Galicia — 

 where it was specially investigated by ourselves — as well as in 

 Poland, Austria, Hungary, the Danubian Provinces, Bessarabia, 

 Turkey, &c., is the true Rinderpest or Steppe Murrain of Russia. 



6. That with the exception of a few places in the kingdom of 

 Prussia and others in Moravia, near to the frontier of Galicia 

 and Poland, the disease in its outbreaks of 1855, 1856, and 1857, 

 did not extend to any country lying westward of a line drawn 

 from Memel on the Baltic to Trieste on the Gulf of Venice. 



7. That speaking in general terms Rinderpest has not existed 

 in Central and Western Europe for a period of forty-two years ; 

 its great prevalence at that time being due to the war which was 

 being then carried on between the different continental Kingdoms 

 and States. 



8. That all the facts connected with the history of its several 

 outbreaks concur in proving that the malady does not spread 

 from country to country as an ordinary epizootic. And that, it 

 it were a disease exclusively belonging to this class, the sanitary 

 measures which are had recourse to throughout Europe would be 

 inefficient in preventing its extension, and consequently that in 

 all probability we should long since have been both practically 

 and painfully familiar with it in this country, as hundreds of 

 our cattle would have succumbed to its destructive effects. 



9. That it is one of the most infectious maladies of which we 

 have any experience, and that it is capable of being conveyed 



