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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Since our last report on this disease, information has been re- 
ceived of its appearance, in a very severe form, in many places in 
the western and south-western districts of Poland, near to the 
Prussian and the Austrian frontiers, and also of its entrance 
into Silesia. Every animal attacked is said to have died; six 
hundred having succumbed in one small circle alone. On 
November 27th the Polish frontier was closed, and a military 
guard appointed by the government of Silesia to prevent the 
further entrance of any cattle, or things likely to bring in the 
infection ; the progress of the disease having been distinctly 
traced from the circle of Kielce to Jedrzejow and thence to 
the town of Pilica. Despite the precautions employed, the 
disease extended from Pilica to Sohrau,in Silesia, distant about 
fifty-seven miles from Oppelm ; the great centre of railway 
communication. The extent of the loss in Silesia has not yet 
reached us, but we learn that the authorities had used every 
means for the speedy extermination of the disease. Cattle 
fairs and markets had been suppressed, and all the prescribed 
quarantine regulations strictly enforced. 
Besides this extension of the plague into Silesia, the malady 
has assumed very serious proportions in Buckowina and 
Galicia, and is still prevalent in the district of Pesth, Hungary. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
This disease has undergone no diminution either in Great 
Britain or Ireland since our last month's report. Indeed, 
there is an increase in the number of places in which 
the disease exists in England. With pleuro-pneumonia, as 
with other contagious diseases of cattle and sheep, the 
want of combined action on the part of the local authority, 
together with the mistaken policy of appointing policemen 
and other inefficient persons as inspectors, is beginning to 
have its effect. 
Until more energy is displayed in carrying out the law in 
a vigorous and proper manner, we can scarcely hope for any 
abatement in number of cases of pleuro-pneumonia. An un- 
restricted trade in diseased animals in Ireland, and a total 
neglect of supervision over the exportation of cattle to Eng- 
land and Scotland from that country, are things not pro- 
mising much good for the future. 
