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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1869. 
SHEEP-SCAB. 
Returns have been received from twenty -four counties of 
the existence of sheep -scab, but the total number of flocks 
reported to be infected is not large. We have reached a 
period of the year when we may expect to find an increase in 
this disease, and especially in ill-managed flocks with regard 
to dipping and other preventive measures. 
By the Order of Council of August 5th, 1871, power is 
vested in the local authority, by which it may make regula- 
tions “ for prohibiting any person having in his possession or 
under his charge a sheep affected with sheep-scab, without 
treating that sheep or causing it to be treated with some 
dressing or dipping, or other remedy for sheep-scab.” 
During the past month the disease was detected in a cargo 
of forty-eight sheep imported into Grimsby from Rotterdam. 
The animals were all killed at the place of landing, and their 
skins disinfected. Within the last few days also a similar 
case occurred at Hull in some sheep imported from Hamburg. 
The animals were dealt with as in the first-named instance. 
INFLUENZA IN HORSES. 
This disease appears to be going the round of the large 
towns and cities both here and on the continent of Europe, 
even the “ New World” has not been free from its visits— 
New York having recently suffered severely. 
According to the Newcastle papers, the malady very recently 
made great havoc in that town and also in Gateshead. The 
pathology of influenza requires a more full investigation than 
it has yet received, and we trust that the present visitation will 
not be suffered to pass without some of the members of the 
profession making efforts to throw further light on its true 
nature and causes. 
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 
. 1869. 
“Return of the Number of Foreign /Animals brought 
by Sea to Ports in Great Britain, which on inspection on 
