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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
illness being now suspected, they were immediately removed 
from the other stock, and orders were sent to Zabrzez for the 
six to be also taken away and kept by themselves. 
As a further security to the stock at Kamienica, early the 
next morning the four steppe oxen were sent back to the 
farm at Zabrzez. Notwithstanding this precaution, the 
disease broke out among the young cattle on the 30th, and 
eight of them died on the first day ; and by April 3rd, thirty- 
one in all were dead. Besides these animals M. Berl 
Krumholz had ten others at Kamienica, and the Commis- 
sioners decided upon killing them at once, so that he might 
receive something in mitigation of his loss. Thus it appears 
that the entire number lost by him at Kamienica was forty- 
one animals ; and had it not been for the selling of the fourteen 
fat oxen, they also in all probability would have been sacri- 
ficed to the disease. 
On the same day that the pest manifested itself at 
Kamienica, it also broke out at Zabrzez among the eighteen 
animals with which the steppe oxen were placed on the 21st. 
Of the entire twenty-eight animals located here, including 
the ten steppe cattle, thirteen died, eleven were killed, three 
recovered, and one resisted the infection entirely. The three 
animals which recovered, and the one which escaped the 
attack, were all steppe oxen : they have been previously 
mentioned as being seen by us on our first visit to the farm. 
The establishment, however, of the cordon confined the dis- 
ease entirely to this farm, although there were in the village 
altogether 453 head of cattle, the greater part of which were 
very poor and weak animals, badly fed and badly provided for. 
The progress of the disease was rather singular at Zabrzez 
— thus, eleven of the thirteen deaths had occurred by the 
end of the third day of the outbreak; every one of the 
animals dying which had up to that time shown symptoms 
of the disease. On the ninth day subsequent to the death 
of these, another animal sickened and died, and on the four- 
teenth day after its attack a second; and in twelve days 
more a third was taken ill, namely, a young bull, whose case 
will be hereafter recorded in full, as coming under our own 
immediate investigation. 
Notwithstanding that the same sanitary measures were 
taken at Kamienica as at Zabrzez, the disease reached the 
village cattle, but was fortunately prevented making much 
havoc among them. The ultimate result of the outbreak was 
that, out of 433 cattle kept in the village, sixty-five were 
attacked, of which thirty-seven died, and twenty-eight were 
slaughtered. 
