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extirpated by the summary measures taken by the govern- 
ment. 
219- In a short time? — In a few months. 
220. You do not happen to have a return of the number 
of cattle affected by the disease as compared with the total 
number of cattle in the district? — Yes; this return will 
show it. The total number of cattle kept in these several 
villages was 14,574, out of which there were attacked 576, 
leaving about 14,000 free from the disease ; and those 14,000 
were left free from the disease in consequence of the summary 
measures taken by the government. 
221. Do you know whether the cattle attacked by disease 
were of a particular age, young cattle or old cattle ? — Cattle 
of all ages seemed to be equally susceptible of the disease, 
and likewise cattle in all kinds of condition. 
222. There was no difference in point of condition or of 
age? — No. So susceptible are animals to the disease, when 
exposed to the influence of its contagion, that it is almost 
certain to declare itself in seven or eight days afterwards. 
223. Do you think the disease is peculiar to the circum- 
stance of the character of the country or climate ? — The 
disease in Austria, in Prussia, in Poland, and other con- 
tiguous countries, is invariably connected with the passage of 
the cattle from the Steppes of Russia into them. It is not 
dependent on any local cause. 
• 224. How many hundred miles from this country was it 
that you first met with an instance of the disease? — Taking 
a direct line across the country, I presume that Cracow 
would be found to be from London from 1 100 to 1200 miles. 
We had to go about 150 miles beyond Cracow before we 
reached the infected places. 
225. That is, about 1400 miles?— From 1300 to 1400 
miles. 
226. And on your subsequent return you heard of no 
other instance of the existence of the disease nearer to 
England than that point ? — I am prepared to say, that the 
whole of the Continent of Europe on this side of a line I 
would draw from Memel on the Baltic, extending downwards 
on the Russian and Prussian frontier to Poland, and then 
separating Austria proper from Poland, and thence onwards 
to Vienna, and from Vienna to Trieste, that everything west 
of such line is free from disease. 
227. And all the countries on the other side were 
strict in measures of prevention ? — They have the most 
stringent measures in operation that it is possible to 
imagine. 
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