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•work ; and on inquiry I am usually told by people, who have 
had it among their stock, that the disease had appeared soon 
after the purchase of fresh animals. 
From the very contagious nature of the disease, and the great 
mortality caused by it, curative treatment is not to be recom- 
mended, for during the whole time an affected animal is kept 
alive it is an active centre of contagion. All our efforts must 
be directed to prevention, with a view to which the slaughter of 
diseased animals, isolation of suspected ones, careful observation 
of all that may have been within reach of the contagion, and 
the free use of disinfectants, are the measures on which the 
greatest reliance can be placed. 
XI. — The Outbreak of Cattle- Plague. 
At a Monthly Council held on Wednesday, February 7th, the 
Society's Veterinary Inspector, Mr. Duguid, laid before the 
Veterinary Committee the following Report on the recent out- 
break of the cattle plague : — 
" For some time previous to the arrival in this country of a 
cargo of animals suffering from cattle-plague, Germany had 
been what is termed a scheduled country under the Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, and cattle coming from German ports 
could only be landed at the respective defined parts of the 
following ports : — Glasgow, Goole, Grimsby, Hartlepool, Hull, 
Littlehampton, London, Middlesborough, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
Plymouth, Shields (North), Southampton, Sunderland, where 
they were to be slaughtered. 
" The first of the recent outbreaks of cattle-plague in Germany 
was on the Polish frontier in Upper Silesia. On the 13th 
January, cattle-plague was discovered at Hamburg, said to have 
been brought there by infected cattle via Berlin. On the 12th 
January, a cargo of forty cattle, already infected, had been 
shipped for Deptford, and arrived there on the 15th. One had 
died during the passage, and more died soon after their arrival. 
" The Veterinary Department of the Privy Council, previous 
to the arrival of these animals, had warned the port inspectors 
to keep careful watch over all importations of German cattle, 
and at Deptford the inspector detected the disease, and commu- 
nicated the fact at once to the chief inspector of the department. 
" An Order was passed by the Lords of the Council, and pub- 
lished in a supplement of the ' London Gazette ' of January 16th, 
by which sheep and goats imported from Germany were placed 
under the restrictions which previously only applied to cattle. 
"In a letter to the 'Times,' dated Hamburg, January 15th, it 
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