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send notice thereof to the chief inspector, who thereupon 
shall send to the occupier notice (per the sub-inspector) of 
his freedom from all restrictions. 
If the veterinary inspector, on his first visit, shall find the 
disease is not a contagious one, he shall immediately inform 
the chief inspector, who shall at once send notice (per sub- 
inspector) of freedom from restrictions. 
The veterinary inspector shall send a report of state of 
stock to the chief inspector and the Privy Council Office, 
once a week (not necessarily on Saturdays). 
No animals to be declared recovered on infected premises, 
or he removed therefrom while any cases of disease exist, 
without a veterinary inspector’s certificate, such certificate 
not to he paid for by the owner. 
The veterinary inspector to be free from the control of the 
local magistrates, who are often extensive landowners in the 
district, and not be removable except by the authority of 
the Privy Council Office. His remuneration to be paid out 
of the national treasury. 
The foregoing suggestions, though capable, perhaps, of 
being amended in details, would, if faithfully carried out, do 
much, I think, towards the suppression and prevention of 
infectious disease. Such as they are they are freely at your 
service. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The present condition of Europe with regard to the cattle 
plague cannot he said to be very reassuring. The disease 
still threatens Germany, not having been exterminated either 
in Galicia or Lower Austria. Besides its existence in the 
Cracow and four other districts of Galicia, to which attention 
has previously been directed, the plague has broken out at 
Chrzanow, a place situated about thirty miles west of Cracow, 
and on the direct line of railway leading into Silesia. It like- 
wise prevails at Atzgersdorf, in the district of Sechshaus, 
Vienna. The southern parts of Poland are still seriously in- 
fected, no diminution of the number of cases having yet 
taken place. 
The disease has likewise made its appearance at Verro, a 
town in the Baltic Province of Livonia^ Russia, in which the 
