466 Report on the Cattle Disease in the Island of Ci/prus. 
Thirty animals left Odessa, accompanied bj a certificate from 
the official veterinary surgeon of that port, to the effect that no 
cattle-disease existed there at the time they were embarked, and 
that they went on board the steamer bound for Constantinople 
in a perfectly healthy condition. The same number reached 
Constantinople, and remained five days in quarantine there, 
subject to inspection. Mr. Vitalis, the sanitary officer, certified 
that these animals were shipped from the Turkish capital on 
October 24th, 1879, and that they were all well at the moment 
of their departure. Dr. Borg, the sanitary doctor at Smyrna, 
certified that thirty animals arrived there on October 26th ; 
that two were disembarked, and that twenty-eight continued 
their voyage to Cyprus, in a healthy state. On their arrival 
here on October 2i)th, 1879, by the steam-ship Junon, of the 
Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's line, I visited them personally on 
board the steamer, and found twenty-nine animals, one cow 
having calved during the voyage. They ail appeared healthy, 
but I nevertheless ordered them to be placed in quarantine for 
observation. In landing them from the steamer, two animals 
were drowned, and the remaining twenty-seven were placed in 
quarantine for five days and watched. On November 5th, 
twenty-five of these left Larnaca for Limassol, and a cow and 
calf intended for Nicosia remained here. 
Immediately the disease was discovered in Demetrion's khan, 
the Commissioner of Larnaca, acting on my suggestion, tele- 
graphed to the Commissioner of Limassol, and the twenty-five 
animals which had left here for Limassol were placed in quaran- 
tine and watched, while the cow and calf that had remained 
here were also isolated. After remaining thus for twenty days, 
the whole of the animals were found perfectly healthy, and set 
free. 
These undeniable facts lead me to suppose that if any of 
these animals suffered from cattle-plague, it would most cer- 
tainly have shown itself during the fifty-one days that had 
elapsed since they left Odessa, and that some, if not all, of them 
would have died. 
The idea that the disease was brought to the island by chopped 
straw seems to me highly improbable. The imported straw, 
almost as soon as it was landed, was despatched to various parts 
of the island ; and, had it been the means of communicating 
the disease, cattle-plague would have shown itself in several 
places at the same time, instead of in one particular stable — 
that is to say, the khan of Messrs. Demetrion Brothers, into 
which no foreign straw was introduced, as the owners had a 
large supply of the native article on the premises. 
Previous to the discovery of the cattle-plague in Cyprus, the 
