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country, and within the last month some rather serious out- 
breaks have taken place in the home-counties, and also in 
the western and northern parts of the kingdom. In our 
last month’s report we stated that an increase in the number 
of infected counties existed as compared with the corre- 
sponding period of the previous month. We have again 
to notice another, although slight, increase. The infected 
counties in Great Britain now number forty-four, and forty- 
five fresh centres of infection have been added to those pre- 
viously existing. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
Very little alteration has taken place with regard to the 
prevalence of this disease during the past month. Forty- 
nine counties are reported as infected, having a total number 
of centres of the disease amounting to 403. In the corre- 
sponding week of last year fifty-five counties were infected, 
and the centres then numbered 967. 
Foot and mouth disease continues to prevail on the 
Continent, and to assume, in many districts, a malignant type. 
Besides this, the malady is reported to have spread over the 
whole of the agricultural provinces of Chili north of the 
Biobio. The losses are described as small, in consequence of 
the mild nature of the attack. Stringent measures have, 
however, been taken to prevent the meat and milk of diseased 
cattle being disposed of for consumption. 
BLACK-LEG IN YOUNG CATTLE— 
HiEMATOSEPSIS. 
That remarkable blood affection, known commonly as 
“ black-leg,” has again appeared in a sporadic form in several 
parts of the country, and under circumstances apparently the 
very opposite of each other. A correspondent in Norfolk 
writes us, “ I have just been called to a lot — twenty-two in 
number — of home-breds, whose ages vary from six to twelve 
or fourteen months, among which e the murrain ’ has broken 
out in a severe form. Seven are dead, and I fear others will 
die, notwithstanding that all of them have been bled and 
s'etoned, as is our usual practice. My fear is increased by 
the circumstance that three have died since the treatment 
was commenced.” Similar reports have reached us from 
