268 ACCOUNT OF THE EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
country, as well as abroad, to prevent the communication and ex- 
tension of the malady by the transfer or importation of diseased 
stock. The treasurer, it appeared, had instructed the commis- 
sioners of customs to direct their officers carefully to examine any 
cattle imported into this country ; and in the event of their ap- 
pearing to be infected with any disease, not to permit them to be 
landed without inspection, and report as to their soundness by 
some competent person, and to report forthwith the circumstances 
to their board;” while in Austria and other parts of the continent, 
the authorities were instructed to institute strict examinations into 
the condition of the stock. The following is the translation of part 
of a dispatch from Baron O’Hillivan de Grasse, Belgian envoy at 
Vienna, on the 6th of January last: — 
“ The malady, termed peste bovine, made its appearance first in 
Russia and Besarabia; hence it extended itself successively in 
Moravia, Upper and Lower Austria, Bohemia, Poland, and Gal- 
licia. It has been in these two latter countries that it has commit- 
ted the greatest ravages, but less, however, than asserted in the 
public papers. Thus, for example, in Bohemia, not more than 
1200 head of stock had died of it up to the 20th of December. 
“ As soon as the epidemic manifested itself in any province of 
the Austrian dominions that province was immediately placed in 
a state of suspension and quarantine, so that no horned cattle were 
allowed to be removed from it into any other ; nor could sheep, 
pigs, wool, pigs’ bristles, raw hides, hoofs, or unpurified lard, be al- 
lowed to be exported. In pursuance of this regulation, all com- 
munication with other parts of the empire, in reference to such 
commodities, was interdicted in Gallicia, Bohemia, Moravia, and 
Upper and Lower Austria; but such interdiction no longer remains 
in force, excepting in the cases of Gallicia and Bohemia. Beside 
these precautions, the Austrian government has established a qua- 
rantine against Russia, Besarabia, and Moldavia. Notwithstanding 
the amelioration of the disease in the Austrian states, the govern- 
ments of Bavaria, Saxony, and Prussia, have each established a 
quarantine against the whole of the Austrian provinces in which 
the epidemic has been declared to prevail. Within a few days 
these three states have permitted the importation of wool, on the 
condition that it shall be always packed in bags hermetically 
closed, and intended for transit, or, rather, for direct transportation 
to its destined factory. 
“ The suspected articles, already mentioned, are principally sent 
into Prussia, Saxony, and Bavaria, for the purpose of being for- 
warded thence into the Rhenic provinces and Belgium, as well as 
in less quantity into Holland. At present, no means of purification 
have been employed in reference to the articles of merchandize 
