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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF EVIDENCE OF THE “ SELECT 
COMMITTEE ON THE SHEEP, &c., CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 
PREVENTION BILL. 5 ’ 
( Examination of Mr. J. B. Simonds , continued from p. 40.) 
211. Then the result of the information you have obtained 
there is, that we have very little to dread from the 
prospect of this disease being brought here? — Very little, 
indeed. 
212. Mr K Caird.~\ Y~ou stated that at Cracow and Breslau 
you heard of the disease. Did you hear of any number of 
cattle that had died? — The proportion of deaths to the 
number affected was considerable. A return, which I have 
here, was given me by Count Clam Martinitz, the governor 
of the province at Cracow. It shows that between the 
1st and 15th of April there were attacked 576 animals, 
of whom 23 recovered, 36 1 died, and 169 were killed. 
213. Where was that? — In the district of Cracow. This 
return gives the names of the villages, the date of the out- 
break, the numbers of the cattle kept in the villages, and the 
number of infected farms. 
214. Did you hear that the disease had subsequently 
disappeared in that quarter ? — The disease has disappeared 
in Cracow, and it has likewise disappeared in all the 
surrounding districts, and there is none of the disease nearer 
to us than about 150 miles on the other side of Cracow, in 
Galicia. 
215. Do you know for how T long a period the disease 
continued to prevail in the neighbourhood of Cracow ? — The 
present outbreak has been of shorter duration on the whole, 
and far less extensive, than previous outbreaks. It was 
suspected that there were some cases in the neighbourhood 
of Breslau two years ago, but there seems to be a doubt 
about it. 
216 . Then it has not continued for a long period? — 
No. 
217. Perhaps not more than a couple of months? — 
It has continued on the whole for eight or nine months. 
218. In one locality? — No. In every locality in suc- 
cession in which the disease has shown itself it has been 
