PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE IN AUSTRALIA. 709 
at some distance* one was taken with the malady three 
months after its arrival in the place. Upon inquiry, it was 
found that pleuro-pneumonia existed where the animal was 
brought from. On that farm nearly all the cattle were 
carried off. In another instance, which had also come under 
his own observation, cows which previously had no symptom 
of disease, and had been upon the place for many months, 
became suddenly affected. An investigation which was made 
pointed at a milkmaid who had come from a farm where the 
disease w r as raging. That girl had a sister resident upon 
the infected farm, whom she was in the habit of meeting. 
The disease, therefore, being so easily communicable, he 
(Mr. Pottie) thought very strict laws ought to be im¬ 
posed. He would recommend that, besides acting strin¬ 
gently with farms where the disease was known to exist, that 
no shifting of cattle should take place without a clean bill of 
health of some months was given ; also, that some qualified 
person should examine all imported cattle, which should not 
be landed unless a certificate of health were given, and also 
one presented to the officer, certifying that they had not 
been diseased for six months before embarkation. 
“ Mr. M‘Cracken asked whether horses were affected by the 
disease ? 
(i Mr. Pottie thought that, although they were subject, when 
put on board ship, to inflammatory fever, sometimes attacking 
the feet and sometimes the lungs, horses did not have conta¬ 
gious pleuro-pneumonia. The disease was more likely to be 
congestion of the lungs, and he thought the horses the 
chairman had spoken of died of that. Inflammatory fever 
always attacked horses in their weakest part, which was not 
seldom the lungs. 
[Mr. Pottie’s remarks met with considerable applause.] 
“ The Chairman , after being informed that Mr. Boadle 
was willing to abide by any resolution which the meeting 
might arrive at, stated it as his opinion that a Bill ought to 
be brought into the Legislature as soon as possible, some¬ 
thing similar to the Scab Act. He had been a considerable 
sufferer from the scab in sheep, and had at one time great 
cause to regret that the Sydney law was not in force, which 
ordered that diseased sheep should be immediately destroyed, 
and 4s. a head paid to their owners. He remembered a man 
buying scabby sheep at Ballaarat, and driving them 100 miles 
up the Wimmera, a proceeding which cost the settlers in the 
district, and he was one, about <£10,000, their sheep be¬ 
coming infected, and deteriorating in value 10s. per head. 
f£ Mr. Miscamble thought the infected herd should be burnt 
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