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Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Our information from France with regard to the cattle 
plague is more precise than it has been for some time past, 
nevertheless the events which have recently occurred in that 
country render it very difficult to obtain all the particlars we 
desire. Early in August we learned that the disease had re- 
appeared in the Arrondissements of Lille and Cambrai, and 
was also very prevalent in the Department of Ardennes. 
Since then, we have information of its existence in the Com- 
munes of Wahagries, Haubourdin, and Aubres, in the Arron- 
dissement of Lille ; at Rceulx, in the Arrrondissement of 
Valenciennes; at Fampoux, Department of Pas de Calais; 
in several communes in the Arrondissement of Sedan ; and 
also in the district around Albert, in Department of Somme, 
where it is making great ravages. Outbreaks have also 
occurred in the Arrondissement of Havre, among cattle 
brought from other districts. 
The departments south of Loire are reported to be free of 
the disease, and consequently no restrictions now exist in 
them with reference to the movement of cattle. Fairs and 
markets have likewise been re-established in that portion of 
the department of Finisterre which lies north of the canal 
between Nantes and Brest, excepting in the Cantons of Lan- 
derneau, Ploudiry, and Pouneaur-Menez, in which sufficient 
time has not elapsed since the last case to warrant the belief 
that the malady is completely exterminated. 
Further from home the cattle plague, besides existing in 
Transylvania, Buckowina, and contiguous countries, has 
broken out in the extreme western parts of Galicia, the dis- 
trict around Cracow being especially infected. 
The outbreak also ’ of the disease in Lower Austria, to 
which we alluded in our August number, seems up to the 
present to have resisted the efforts made for its suppression, 
and, according to the latest intelligence, the disease has 
spread to other communes westward of Vienna. It is even 
reported to have established itself in the district around St. 
Polton, a town nearly forty miles west of Vienna. Germany 
is, however, said to be free of the disease as yet, but restric- 
tions are imposed against the entrance of Steppe, Podolian, 
and other grey cattle, as well as against hides and animal 
products in general. Cattle from France are likewise pro- 
hibited from entering Germany. 
