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the orders which have been published, and all 

 the dangers which have been clearly exposed 

 to them, should still persist in driving their 

 cattle out of their abodes, would deserve cen- 

 sure, and ought to be heavily fined. The best 

 they can do, since the contagion has not been 

 prevented, is to submit their cattle to the 

 treatment which we are now going to explain 

 to them in detail. 



It has been abundantly proved by the many 

 convictions at the various police courts, that 

 the flesh of cattle seriously diseased has been 

 sold to the consumers, to the great injury of 

 the public health ; and if the cholera, which is 

 steadily and surely advancing towards us, 

 should mix its fatal germs with those of the 

 ox-typhus, we must all expect deplorable con- 

 sequences, in case the flesh of tainted oxen 

 should continue to be sold by the butchers, as 

 during the last three months it has been. 



Every farmer or grazier who shall have fully 

 ascertained that the ox typhus has insinuated 

 itself into his farm or his stables, must in- 

 stantly have recourse to the necessary mea- 

 sures and safeguards by means of which he 

 may limit its pernicious influence, and prevent 



