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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Conclusions. 
1. That all the countries of Northern and Western Europe 
from which cattle are exported to England are perfectly free 
from the Rinderpest; and that the only disease of an epizootic 
or destructive nature which prevails therein is the one known 
to us as Pleuro-pneumonia, which disease has existed here 
since 1841. 
2. That in the greater part of the official despatches and 
reports which have been forwarded to the Government, and 
by them transmitted to the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England, the Rinderpest has been confounded with Pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, “ Milzbrand,’ 5 and other destructive maladies to 
which cattle are liable. 
3. That the Rinderpest is a disease which specially belongs 
to the Steppes of Russia, from which it frequently extends, 
in the ordinary course of the cattle trade, into Hungary, 
Austria, Galicia, Poland, &c. 
4. That whenever circumstances have arisen which called 
for the movements of troops, and consequently the transit of 
large numbers of cattle, in Southern and Eastern Europe, 
and particularly when Russian troops have crossed the frontier 
of their territory, the disease has been spread over a far 
greater extent of country. 
5. That the disease which has recently prevailed in Galicia 
—where it was specially investigated by ourselves—as well 
as in Poland, Austria, Hungary, the Danubian Provinces, 
Bessarabia, Turkey, &c., is the true Rinderpest, or Steppe 
Murrain of Russia. 
6. That with the exception of a few places in the kingdom 
of Prussia and others in Moravia, near to the frontier of 
Galicia and Poland, the disease in its outbreaks of 1855,-56, 
and -57, did not extend to any country lying westward of 
a line drawn from Memel on the Baltic to Trieste on the 
Gulf of Venice. 
7. That, speaking in general terms, Rinderpest has not 
existed in Central and Western Europe for a period of forty- 
two years; its great prevalence at that time being due to the 
war which was being then carried on between the different 
Continental kingdoms and states. 
8. That all the facts connected with the history of its 
several outbreaks concur in proving that the malady does 
not spread from country to country as an ordinary epizootic. 
And that, if it were a disease exclusively belonging to this 
class, the sanitary measures which are had recourse to 
throughout Europe would be inefficient in preventing its 
