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taken place for exposing mizzly-pork for sale. Good cooking, 
or complete pickling of the infected meat will destroy the vitality 
of the hydatids ; but it is evident that much must depend on the 
activity of Meat Inspectors in preventing the spread of this 
loathsome disease. Foreign pigs, especially those known in 
the trade as Hungarian pigs, and also Irish pigs, are more fre- 
quently the subjects of the disease than English. The Inspectors 
at the ports are aware of this, and although the malady is not 
easily detected in the living animal, seizures and destruction of 
infected pigs take place from time to time, an instance of which 
occurred at Hull during the past summer. 
Referring to the importation of foreign cattle and other animals, 
used as food, it may be stated that the prompt means which have 
been adopted by the Government, and the vigilance observed by 
the Veterinary Inspectors at the ports, have proved most effective 
in saving the country from a fresh invasion of the cattle plague, 
consequent on the Franco-Prussian war. At the commencement 
of the year, cattle-plague Avas prevalent in Poland, Galicia,^ 
Hungary, Roumania, <Scc., as well as in countries more immediately 
contiguous to the steppes of Russia. Early in the year the disease 
made its way into Siberia : but, in consequence of the precautions 
adopted by the Austrian and Prussian Governments, it was pre- 
vented extending further in a westward direction. The continu- 
ance of the disease, however, in the countries referred to, required 
on the part of Prussia the maintenance of stringent regulations 
with respect to the importation of cattle and such articles of 
commerce as were likely to bring in the infection. Just before 
the breaking out of the war the restrictions amounted to the posi- 
tive prohibition of cattle into East Prussia, in consequence of the 
extension of the cattle plague to the Baltic provinces of Russia. 
The occurrence of the war had, however, to be followed by the 
withdrawal of the military cordon on the Russian and Polish) 
frontier; and as the demands of the Commissariat of the Army 
increased, contractors for the supply of cattle did not hesitate to- 
obtain animals from Poland and other infected countries. The 
cattle-plague was thus quickly introduced, and within a few weeks 
it had established itself in Prussia, Mecklenburg, Saxony, and other 
States of the North German Confederation. Following in the 
wake of the armv, the disease broke out along the whole course' 
of the Etappen Road. Its ravages in the Palatinate were most 
destructive. Entering France, it quickly spread to the cattle 
of that country, while it continued to prevail among the animals of 
the Commissariat, producing immense losses around INIetz and 
other centres of the invading forces. Still following the army, it; 
was soon established in the Valleys of the Sarthe, the Marne, and 
the Seine, and in the Northern Departments of France near to the 
