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Sanitary Police and the Cattle-Plague. 
of every State in which the cattle-plague may manifest itself, to 
announce immediately, by telegraph, the appearance of the dis- 
ease, first of all to the Governments of the adjoining countries, 
and afterwards to those of the States which have expressed their 
desire to be informed of such outbreaks. 
Where the locality infected by the cattle-plague is less than 
75 kilometres (45 miles) from the frontier, the authorities of the 
district to which the locality belongs will have the responsibility 
of announcing by telegraph the appearance of the disease to the 
authorities of the adjoining countries. 
A minute inquiry will be made as to the channels of intro- 
duction and propagation of the disease, and the result of this 
inquiry will, with the shortest possible delay, be conveyed to the 
authorities of the countries which seem to be menaced by an 
invasion of the plague. 
Each country where the cattle-plague is actually raging will 
be required to publish in its official journal, a weekly statement 
of the condition of the disease, the measures adopted to restrict 
its propagation, the successive modifications which circumstances 
have required in them, and finally the day when they will cease 
to be in operation. 
This statement will be sent to the editors of the official 
journals of the States which desire to receive it. 
These sanitary measures will be productive of the greatest 
advantages for all countries if they are scrupulously carried cut 
wherever the plague shows itself, because in that case every one 
will be on his guard against it, viz. : The authorities of the 
countries the most immediately menaced, in adopting without 
delay the preventive measures which are recommended in such 
cases ; and the commercial world in abstaining from dealing with 
the infected localities or districts. 
The first idea of these excellent sanitary measures, proposed 
to the Conference by one of the delegates of Germany, belongs 
to M. Zundel, an able and unassuming veterinary surgeon of 
Mulhouse, who published it in the ' Recueil de Medecine 
veterinaire.' It is both a duty and a pleasure to give'him credit 
for it here. 
The International Conference has not desired to institute a 
new sanitary regime, for the purpose of preventing the invasion 
and impeding the propagation of the cattle-plague ; but to 
obtain the adoption of an identical code of rules by all the 
countries which have combined for this object. The efficacy 
of these rules is proved by the beneficial results which they 
have always given, wherever they have been rigorously ap- 
plied. These results are such that it may be affirmed that 
this terrible plague, from the ravages of which we have suffered 
