280 RE POUT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
“ 2. Estate Ponischowitz. Twenty Podolian oxen came here on the same 
occasion, and they within a lew days gave indications of being affected. 
Like the others, also, they had been put with other cattle, forty-nine in 
number. On the occurrence of the outbreak the whole were killed, so that 
not a single head of cattle was left on the estate. The place was likewise 
surrounded by a military cordon ; but while the disease was going on, a 
carpenter’s apprentice employed on the estate, escaped the vigilance of the 
guards, and went to his father’s house, which was distant about two thou- 
sand paces. While there he repaired a manger in his father’s cow-shed, 
and also changed the clothes he had worn at Ponischowitz. The rinderpest 
in consequence of this broke out among his father’s cattle. The whole were 
thereupon killed, and a military cordon drawn around the premises. It is 
now ten days since the animals were slaughtered. 
“ 3. At Slupsho, four of the Podolian oxen sent here were attacked. They 
were likewise slaughtered, and the further progress of the disease arrested. 
The cordon has been raised here four weeks; the place having been previ- 
ously disinfected. 
“ 4. At Zawaiz, in the circle of Beutlien, at a totally isolated farm, a case 
of sudden death occurred to an ox, which the surgeon reported as happening 
from rinderpest; but there is considerable doubt as to this* opinion being 
correct. 
“ 5. At Wohlau, in the circle of Pless, close to the frontier of Galicia, 
and into which no cattle had been imported, three cases of the disease 
occurred, and all at peasants. These animals had come in contact with 
nine others, and all were consequently killed and a mililary cordon esta- 
blished. In this particular instance it was impossible to trace this cause of 
the introduction of the disease. 
“ These are all the cases of rinderpest which have recently occurred in 
the provinces of Silesia, and at the present time not a single suspicious 
case exists, owing to the means which the government has adopted to arrest 
its course. No fear need be entertained that the disease will extend from 
Prussia to the neighbouring countries. 
“ (Signed) Baron Schlkinitz, 
“ Privy Councillor to his Majesty the King of Prussia, and 
Upper President of the province of Silesia. 
“ Breslau, April 27th, 1857.” 
It will not be necessary to comment on this report in this 
place, and more particularly as we shall have hereafter to 
adduce some remarkable proofs of the contagious nature of 
the rinderpest. It is right, however, as several parts of 
Prussia have experienced during the last two years different 
outbreaks of the malady, and as its extension in this king- 
dom especially is an object of much practical importance, as 
thereby a greater risk is incurred of its reaching those coun- 
tries which are in direct communication with our ports, that 
as complete a history of these recent visitations should be 
here given as we have been able to collect. 
( To he continued .) 
