34 SELECT COMMITTEE ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL. 
professional opinion is taken, and, if on the individual being 
summoned before a magistrate it appears that he has acted 
entirely in ignorance, then the magistrate would inflict a 
nominal fine. 
180. Mr. Miles.'] Are there any other diseases you would 
include except those which you have been examined upon ? 
— It might be as well to include the disease prevailing to 
some extent at the present time on the Continent, although 
I believe there is little danger to be apprehended of such an 
affection showing itself here, but it may do so, and then 
perhaps we should be desirous of having a measure in 
operation which could be put at once in force. 
181. Under what name is that disease recognised? — It 
passes under several names ; it is not unfrequently designated 
the murrain, which is somewhat an unmeaning term ; it is 
sometimes called in this country contagious typhus. In 
Germany it is known by the term “ rinderpest,” which simply 
means cattle plague. Of all the names that are proposed to 
be given to this disease I would rather take rinderpest. I 
do not believe it has sufficient relation with typhoid disease 
to be correctly called contagious typhus, and that there might 
be a thorough understanding (if I may be allowed to use 
such an expression) between ourselves and the Veterinary 
Professors of the Continent ; or that there should be no 
ambiguity, I would call it by the German name “ rinder- 
pest.” 
182. You have lately been abroad to investigate the 
nature of the disease? — 1 have. 
183. What countries have you travelled through? — We 
went to Belgium first ; then from Belgium to Holland ; 
from Holland to Westphalia and Hanover; from Hanover to 
Hamburgh and Holstein, and then to the territory of 
Lubeck; afterwards to Mecklenburgh, Saxony, and Prussia; 
from Prussia to Silesia ; from Silesia we went on to Galicia, 
and there found the disease. We returned by way of Cracow ; 
came through Austria by Vienna, went into Bavaria, visiting 
part of Bohemia, and returned through the small German 
states, by way of the Rhine. 
184. You were deputed, as veterinary professor, by the 
three national societies to make the investigation ? — I was. 
185. State whether on getting to Galicia you found any 
disease called by this term, or previous to your arriving at 
Galicia? — We found that rinderpest had existed in the 
neighbourhood of Breslau, in Prussia, at the latter period of 
last year ; we found also that it had existed in the neigh- 
bourhood of Cracow in the former part of the present year, 
