720 
PL EtJRO-PNEUMONIA. 
than during the previous month. According to the official 
returns, the disease has raged in forty departments of the 
east, north, west, and centre of France. In eighteen depart- 
ments the repressive measures have been so far successful 
that the disease is considered to be extinguished. It is 
increasing in Havre, and remains stationary or is decreasing 
in the departments of the Ardennes, Aube, Calvados, Maine 
et Loire, FOrne, Pas de Calais, Seine Inferieure, Somme, 
Yoges, l’Aisne, Doubs, l’Eure, la Marne, Haute Marne, la 
Meurthe, la Meuse, l’Oise, la Haute Saone, la Sarthe, Seine 
et Marne, Jura, and la Mayeuse. Meanwhile we hear no- 
thing of those stringent measures being applied to the eradi- 
cation of the plague that are always effectual in the hands of 
the Prussian authorities. When the proposition to treat 
cattle plague in France by means of phenic acid was discussed 
in our pages we prognosticated disastrous results, and our 
prediction has been verified by the event. 
In Russia cattle plague has destroyed many animals in the 
villages surrounding Taganrog, and the districts in the neigh- 
bourhood of Stavropol and on the Criban have suffered 
severely. 
Poland remained free from the disease for some time, but 
we learn from Warsaw that an outbreak occurred in the 
early part of September in a great many localities in the 
governments of Petrikau and Lublin. Nothing is said of 
the cause of the disease, but we gather that it appeared 
simultaneously in several places. 
The Prussian authorities in Silesia have placed an un- 
usually strong cordon on the frontier. 
Lower Austria is reputed free of cattle plague, but the 
disease exists at Hernals, Ottaking, Wahring, and Neuleid- 
henfelds in Hernals, and also in two places in the district of 
Seclishaus. 
Information from Turkey is to the effect that no cattle 
plague exists in the principalities. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Compared with last year the return of cases of pleuro- 
pneumonia show an increase of the number of attacks, but 
not to any serious extent. In the dairies in London and 
other large towns, the cases are numerous, as in our expe- 
rience they always, at least for many years past, have 
been; but throughout the country the malady prevails to so 
slight an extent that it only requires combined and con- 
