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that the Prussian local authorities were informed of it, the 
disease had been circumscribed to its central point, and sup- 
pressed by the immediate slaughter of the diseased or 
suspected animals, and by the isolation, during a sufficient 
period, of the villages that had been infected. 
M. Renault was assured that during this epizootic of 
Hungary, the states of Poland, Austria, and Prussia, had 
alone taken precautions ; whilst Bavaria, Saxony, and the 
other German states had not considered it necessary to take 
any for themselves. 
In order to show the facility with which the epizootic is 
detected as soon as it commences, and may be suppressed at 
once in Prussia, M. Renault explained the way in which the 
sanitary veterinary service is organized, and usefully worked 
in that country. And he adds that, in Prussia, the diseased 
animal, declared by the owner, is slaughtered and paid for a 
third of its value. If the animal has not been declared, not 
only the proprietor receives no indemnity, but he is con- 
demned in a heavy penalty. The price of suspected animals, 
which it is judged proper to sacrifice, is paid in full. The 
indemnities are levied beforehand by the State upon the 
proprietors, according to the number of animals possessed. 
In some parts of Gallicia, Messrs. Renault and Imlin have 
visited districts in which, without the intervention of the 
State or local administration, similar measures are agreed 
upon and executed by the proprietors of cattle spontaneously ; 
and in case of the sacrifice of diseased or suspected animals, 
they assess themselves in the same proportions. 
We shall mention further, as a point of interest, the 
following fact stated by M. Renault. At different periods, 
inoculation has been held up as an excellent means of pre- 
serving cattle from the typhus, or, at least, of rendering it 
very mild. In this last epizootic, a large proprietor and 
cultivator in the neighbourhood of Posen wished to make trial 
of it, and of 100 cows inoculated the whole died. We consider 
the experiment as sufficiently conclusive not to be tempted to 
renew it. 
M. Renault has finished this interesting communication, 
by demonstrating the weakness of the fears of England, in 
the actual state of the typhoid epizootic in Europe. In his 
estimation the measure taken by the British Government has 
no serious foundation. The disease which prevails at this 
moment in Holland, Hanover, Mecklenburg, and Den- 
mark, is the pleuro-pneumonia; which also is found in 
France, and from which Great Britain is herself far from 
being exempt. 
