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SHEEP-POX 
This disease, which was reported last month to exist at 
Demmin in Stettin, has extended to three other neighbour- 
ing districts, but we have not heard of any serious mortality. 
Sheep-scab also continues to extend in the neighbourhood of 
Stettin. In our own country it maintains its normal rate of 
progress. Recent inquiries tend to show that the disease, 
like foot-and-mouth complaint, is taken very much as a 
matter of course by stock-owners, who make but slight 
attempts to get rid of it. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Since our last report there has been a gradual diminution 
in the number of infected counties, and the last returns give 
a total of thirty-four counties, some twenty less than were 
reported from last month. This state of things would be 
highly satisfactory if we could accept the belief that all or 
nearly all the cases came under the notice of inspectors. It 
is, however, quite evident that the disease has ceased in cer- 
tain localities in which it existed a few weeks back. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
The number of infected counties has been reduced from 
fifty-three, as last reported, to forty-eight, but the centres of 
the disease have been nearly doubled in number in the same 
time, owing to fresh outbreaks in Somerset, Staffordshire, Lan- 
cashire, Dorsetshire, and Yorkshire. For some time past the 
malady on the Continent has almost ceased to exist. Last 
month only twelve cattle were stopped by the inspectors, ten of 
them from France, which is the only country where the disease 
at present exists to any extent. The other animals stopped on 
account of foot-and-mouth disease were swine, principally 
also from France. 
There can be no doubt that, with ordinary care, foot-and- 
mouth disease in this country ought by this time to have been 
reduced to its ordinary state of prevalence. 
