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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE, STEPPE MURRAIN, 
OR RINDERPEST. 
By James Beart Simonds, Professor of Cattle Pathology 
in the Royal Veterinary College, London. 
[Concludedfrom p. 366.) 
Austria. 
In our return journey from Galicia we visited Vienna, and 
went from thence to Munich, Stuttgardt, and Frankfort, with 
a view of ascertaining, by a personal examination, the state 
of things in Southern Germany and Rhenish Prussia. In 
no division of the Austrian dominions, except Galicia, has 
rinderpest prevailed during the present year. Bohemia, 
Moravia, and even Hungary have been entirely free from it. 
The disease existed in several parts of the empire in 1855 and 
also in the following year, but it was suppressed in the usual 
manner. It was introduced on that occasion from Bessarabia, 
whence it appears that it generally comes. 
Some anxiety had been felt for fear the malady might be dis¬ 
seminated by the bringing together of animals from differeent 
countries at the great Agricultural Exhibition which took place 
at Vienna, in May of this year (1857) ; and the directors of 
the show, early in April, issued a notice, in which they stated 
“ that the cases of disease which had occurred in Moldavia 
and Silesia had been confined altogether to the individual 
animals which had been imported, and that the cattle of the 
country were free from all murrain.” It was further notified, 
that on the days appointed for the admission of animals for 
exhibition, the transport to Vienna of cattle for the slaughter¬ 
house would not be permitted by railroad, and that the con¬ 
veyance of those intended to be exhibited would be effected in 
perfectly new waggons. 
The extent of the last outbreak in Austria, its duration, 
&c., will be shown by the following official report. (See Table 
on the succeeding page.) 
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