REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
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cattle, and to act also as Commissioners of veterinary sanitary 
police during the prevalence of these affections. To fit them 
for this purpose, they have to make this class of maladies 
their special study, and subsequently to undergo an exami- 
nation as a test of their competency. 
By the district physician we were placed in communi- 
cation with M. Carl Zankel, surgeon and commissioner of 
Alt Sandec, who received instructions to accompany us forth- 
with to the different places where the disease existed ; and to 
proceed, in the first instance, to a village called Liidowica, 
lying at the foot of the high range of the Carpathian moun- 
tains, where a case had just occurred, and which it was 
hoped w r e might succeed in seeing before the animal was 
destroyed. 
On reaching Liidowica we were at once admitted within 
the cordon , when we found that this animal, together with 
nine others which had been exposed to the infection with 
him, had already been slaughtered and buried. An appli- 
cation was made to have the bodies disinterred, but which 
for w ? ant of due formality was not complied with — Liidowica, 
in fact, being outside the circle of Alt Sandec, to which M. 
Zankel was attached, and we not having with us a special 
order from the President to the authorities of the circle we 
were now in for the disinterment. 
The slaughtering had swept away all the animals in the 
village which were known to have been exposed to the in- 
fectious influence of the disease, and consequently we pressed 
forward through the mountain passes, which here chiefly 
consist of the partially dried beds of rivers and streams, to 
another village, called Zabrzez. It was somewhat singular 
that at Zabrzez w r e came upon the identical farm where the 
malady had first showed itself in this locality, and saw on the 
premises four of the original Steppe oxen by which it had 
been brought. Three of these had been the subjects of the 
disease, but had recovered, and the fourth had resisted the 
contagion throughout, as was believed, because he had before 
been affected. They were tied up to fatten, and had every 
appearance of perfect health, having no trace of disease of 
any kind about them. 
Besides these, there vrere nine other animals on the farm in 
quarantine, consisting of three oxen, a young bull, and five 
cows. They also were feeding and looking well. Tw r elve 
days had elapsed since the last death ; and we learned that 
should no other case occur, the animals wrnuld not be 
liberated till the completion of the twenty-first day from the 
time of the last death. 
