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According to the latest information no diminution of the 
plague had taken place in the infected districts of Asia 
Minor. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
Since our last month's publication the attacks of foot and 
mouth disease have,, with some few exceptions, greatly dimi- 
nished in every county in England, the most notable excep- 
tion being Cheshire. The number of cases of this disease, 
and also of pleuro-pneumonia, which have occurred in that 
county from the beginning of September down to the pre- 
sent time, make it highly probable that Cheshire will head 
the list in the losses from these diseases, as she did in those 
from cattle plague. It is not difficult to explain the reason 
of this ; nay, rather, it would be surprising if it were other- 
wise, seeing the extraordinary way infectious diseases are 
there dealt with. 
The decline of the disease on the Continent is also fully 
established. Indeed, many countries are reported as alto- 
gether free of cases. France, Belgium, and Holland, are, 
however, still infected, as are several of the German states. 
The disease is said to have disappeared from the districts 
near to the Dardanelles, but to have broken out afresh near 
to the Port of Salonica, in Roumalia. Its existence is also 
reported in the Provinces of Vicenza and Padua. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
No material alteration seems to have taken place during 
the past month in the numbers of places in which pleuro- 
pneumonia exists. This disease is quite as widely spread, 
both in Great Britain and Ireland : and we cannot congratu- 
late ourselves on more energy being displayed, in some of 
the infected districts, by the local authority in rightly en- 
forcing the provisions of the law. Experiments of inoculation 
have at present led to no definite conclusions, nor would it 
appear that they are likely to do so. In another part of the 
Journal we insert the report in full of the experiments un- 
dertaken in Norfolk. It is unnecessary that comment should 
now be made upon this official document. 
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