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the disease came from abroad or elsewhere he was not 

 able to state. Sir George Grey asked him whether he 

 had found any disease among the foreign cattle that 

 came into the market. He said not one. They had, 

 no doubt, many instances of the disease amongst the 

 cows that were ordinarily called milch cows, but that 

 were not milch cows when they came to market, be- 

 cause one effect of the disease was to deprive the 

 animal of milk. These were then sent to the market 

 and sold as fat stock. He could only say they had 

 had no cases, except in cows, whether they came from 

 the dairies in London or elsewhere. 



NOTE 0. 



M. Dembinski, Professor of Analytical Chemistry 

 and Natural Science, had also addressed a communi- 

 cation to the Lord Mayor on the subject. The pre- 

 valent Rinderpest, he said, originated in the steppes 

 of Podolia, from which considerable herds of cattle 

 were exported through the steppes to Moscow, St. 

 Petersburg, Riga, and Revel, and thence to the ports 

 of Memel, Konigsberg, Dantzic, Hamburg, Kiel, and 

 the Hague. Deprived of congenial food and pure 

 water on their transport through the steppes, and then 

 arriving at marshy lands, the exhausted animals 

 drank the stagnant water, which, during hot weather, 

 exhaled a pestiferous malaria, and infected them with 

 a predisposition to the epidemic in question, which 

 developed itself into a kind of fever on the voyage to 

 England in a croivded condition. 



