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tion all the violations of the law, which every 

 day continue to fill the columns of the public 

 journals. One graceless wretch, who deserved 

 to be hanged for it, if his ignorance do not ex- 

 cuse him, was so infamous as to introduce a sick 

 cow into a shed not yet attainted, in his crimi- 

 nal desire of propagating the disease there.* 



Thus, then, independently of the causes 

 inherent to the typhus itself, which served of 

 necessity to diffuse it, other causes proceeding 

 from the defective state of the law, and the 

 perfidy of individuals, have contributed to its 

 dissemination. And yet the Government cir- 

 culars, the newspapers, and the reports of 

 veterinary doctors have made known that the 

 slightest omissions and inattentions were 

 serious that the want of ventilation and clean- 

 liness in the stables, the overcrowding of the 

 cattle, and their abiding near their own drop- 

 pings, or dung-heaps that the keeping of 

 dead bodies close to farms, cow-sheds, enclosed 

 grounds, and fields that the hasty and im- 

 perfect burial of cattle that the collection and 

 transit of their fragments, bones, horns, and 

 skins that the driving on the public roads of 



* See Note Z. 

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