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At the corresponding period of the past month, 1531 farms and 
premises were infected, and 64 counties. It will thus be seen 
that the decline of the disease has steadily gone on since its 
commencement about three months since. In Ireland the dis- 
ease would appear to have been most effectually stamped out, as 
no cases have occurred for the past two or three weeks. This 
has only been accomplished by unceasing vigilance and untiring 
energy on the part of the Veterinary Department of that 
country. 
Foot and mouth disease is probably the most wide-spread 
infectious disease of cattle which is known. It not only 
exists in Europe as a whole, and is known in Asia Minor, but 
in India and other far distant parts of the continent of Asia. 
Africa also is known to be infected, and recent accounts have 
shown that the cattle of Port Natal, &c., frequently suffer 
from the disease. 
SCAB IN SHEEP. 
This disease still persists in many parts of Pomerania, 
particularly in the district of Griefenberg, Stettin. No fresh 
importations, however, of sheep suffering from the affection 
have taken place. In England the scab is reported as being 
on the increase, having an existence in no less than thirty- 
four counties. It also prevails in several parts of Scotland 
and Wales. 
We have again to report the loss of sheep from the use of 
improper dipping mixtures ; and in one case just brought to our 
notice, two or three bullocks had died from the poisonous effects 
of a sheep-dipping compound which had been applied to the 
skin for the destruction of lice. The mixture was used in 
too large a quantity ; and besides its injurious effects locally, 
the animals are supposed to have licked a considerable portion 
of it from off each other. 
GREAT FATALITY AMONG SHEEP AND CATTLE 
IN MOROCCO. 
We learn that immense losses have very recently taken place 
among the cattle and sheep in the province of Mazagan, 
Morocco, which are thought to have depended on the long- 
continued rains and inclemency of weather. 
It appears that the want of sufficient pasturage during 
