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SMALLPOX OF SHEEP. 
Early in December, one sheep of a cargo of 435 was found 
by the Veterinary Inspector at this port to be the subject of 
this disease. The animals were exported from Hamburg 
and landed in London. The whole of them were slaughtered 
at the landing-place and the skins disinfected; no mischief 
to our home-flocks has thus happened. Notwithstanding 
this importation, sheep-pox does not appear to be more 
rife than usual on the Continent, although it cannot be said 
to be ever absent from some of the German states. The 
reported outbreak of this disease atMalton, Yorkshire, proved 
to be without foundation. 
SHEEP-SCAB. 
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This malady is on the increase in many parts of the country, 
as is usually the case during this period of the year when 
humid and w 7 et weather prevails. The same would appear to 
be the case on the Continent, as is shown by the circumstance 
that during the past month several infected animals have 
been imported. Diseased cargoes have reached London, 
Hull, and Newcastle, from Germany, Holland, and Belgium. 
In each case prompt measures were taken to prevent any 
injury resulting, by the slaughter of all the animals, whether 
diseased or not, and disinfecting their skins. Some scabby 
sheep have also come into Liverpool from Valparaiso. 
AMPUTATION OF THE LEG OF A HEIFER. 
Mr. J. Barton Buckland, Dover, has favoured us with a 
short description of a case of a heifer, in which he successfully 
amputated one of the fore limbs. The animal, which was the 
property of Mr. Sandford, of Merton, met with an accident, 
by which a compound fracture of a most serious kind, was 
caused. The limb had to be amputated above the knee joint. 
The case went on well, the heifer being soon enabled to lie 
down and to rise with a facility almost equal to any other 
animal. About five months afterwards she had gained so 
much flesh and was in such good condition as to enable her 
owner to sell her with advantage to a butcher. 
