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Epizootics. 
Cattle-Plague. — The chief event in connection with this de- 
structive class of diseases has been the recent outbreak of cattle- 
plague in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Like the outbreak of 
1865, the disease was brought here bj animals exported from 
Russia. In 1865 the cattle came direct from Revel, via the 
Baltic, to the port of Hull : in 1872 they were brought from 
Cronstadt, having been first taken there from the province of 
Petersburgh. It is also a singular coincidence that the infec- 
tion in the recent outbreak spread from the port of Hull, having 
doubtless first reached the cattle-market of that place by persons 
passing between the markets and the ship while lying in dock 
with the diseased cattle on board. Happily the country may be 
congratulated in being again free of cattle-plague. Inquiries 
just completed have shown that at Patrington, where the disease 
first broke out, no case has occurred for more than two months. 
The fields have been top-dressed with lime, the sheds disinfected, 
and fresh cattle brought to the premises. 
In the Pocklington district, where the plague was detected on 
August 27th, and continued, in spite of the measures which 
were employed to eradicate it, for nearly two months, no fresh 
case has occurred for nearly six weeks. It may be therefore 
fairly concluded that the disease is thoroughly exterminated in 
that locality. 
In the Bridlington district, the disease has also been stamped 
out, and the fields in which the animals were killed and buried 
re-occupied by cattle. 
The following statistical return shows the total loss of cattle 
which has been sustained : — 
Number of cattle on infected farms and premises, but all not 
necessarily in contact with the diseased, 289. 
Attacked, 72 : 
Killed, diseased 51 
Died 21 
Total . . 72 
Killed, healthy 171 
Escaped 46 
289 
Pleuro-pneumonia. — With regard to the disease designated by 
the term pleuro-pneumonia, there are many reasons to fear that 
it is on the increase in different parts of the country, although 
