FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
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The news from Persia is most distressing. Famine and 
pestilence are abroad in the land, and both man and animals 
seem doomed to destruction ; while cholera is destroying its 
hundreds, cattle plague is literally sweeping away it’s thou- 
sands. In many parts of the country nearly all the oxen 
and buffaloes have perished. The particulars of this state of 
things have reached us through the authorities at Constanti- 
nople. Dr. Castaldi, the Persian reporter, in alluding to 
the infectious nature of the disease, says a remarkable 
instance of this has just occurred : “ The hides of the cattle 
that have died from the disease are preserved at various 
depots along the Caspian shore in order to send them into 
Russia as soon as the prohibition against such traffic, arising 
from the existence of the malady, had ceased. No sooner 
was one of these depots formed at Caratepe, where no sign 
of cattle plague had previously shown itself, than all the 
cattle there became affected and perished from it.” 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
In our last month’s report it was stated that pleuro-pneu- 
monia was less rife in the metropolis, and also upon the 
whole that the fresh outbreaks were fewer in number than 
they had been of late. Since then we find that the malady 
has increased to a serious extent in and around London, as 
well as in some of the English and Scotch counties. No less 
than forty-three counties in Great Britain are now infected, 
while the centres of the disease number two hundred and 
fifteen. 
Town dairymen, especially in London, are doing their 
utmost to suppress information respecting the existence of 
the disease in their sheds, and many of them are getting rid 
of the diseased animals in a surreptitious manner. We 
would caution these persons against a continuance of this 
practice, for doubtless prosecutions will follow in every case 
in which proof can he established. 
From Holland we learn that the disease has considerably 
decreased. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
During the past month the foot-and-mouth disease has 
been on the increase in Ireland, particularly in the grazing 
and dairy districts ; and as might be expected under these 
circumstances, many cattle have been found to be affected on 
being landed at Liverpool and other parts. Some of the 
