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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
France has not materially improved its condition in 
respect of cattle plague since the report in our April number. 
In the north the malady continues to rage, to the great dis¬ 
comfort of Belgium. A fresh outbreak was reported early 
last month, near Havre, and more recently an outbreak 
occurred in Sedan (Ardennes). On one farm, near Havre, 
twenty animals out of forty-one, it is said, died in a few 
days. This statement entirely destroys the effect of the 
stereotyped remark, “ The most energetic repressive mea¬ 
sures have been adopted.” According to our ideas, the only 
rational measure would have been the slaughter of the whole 
herd as soon as the outbreak of disease was detected. 
The reports from Calais state that no case of plague has 
occurred in St. Pierre-les-Calais for several weeks; and in 
the Pas-de-Calais the disease is confined to one commune. 
Round Amiens the cattle plague only exists in the depart¬ 
ment of Somme. 
The infected departments, according to the last return, are, 
Nord, eight communes; Pas de Calais, one commune ; Seine- 
et-Oise, one commune; Somme, three communes. Owing 
to the cessation of the disease in St. Pierre-les-Calais, the 
mayor has seen fit to relax certain stringent measures which 
were considered necessary while it prevailed in the district. 
Belgium has remained free from cattle plague since March 
3rd, according to the official reports; but there have been 
isolated cases of disease which so far resembled the plague as 
to give rise to some aprehension. 
One case was reported to have occurred at St. Denis- 
Westrem, but th e post-mortem examination resulted in the 
detection of only some of the lesions of cattle plague, others 
being absent. The editor of the Journal de la Societe Agri¬ 
cole du Brabant , in the number for April 21, makes the fol¬ 
lowing remarks on the case. 
As we suggested in our last number the alleged case of 
cattle plague reported at St. Denis-Westrem, Pre-de-Sand, 
is not confirmed. Our sanitary condition continues to be 
altogether satisfactory. 
We should be glad to say as much of France; but the 
reports which we have received this week are not good. 
Cattle plague has reappeared in the arrondissement of Sedan 
(Ardennes). It is also known to exist at Vaux-Mouzon and 
at Puilly, close to the frontier of Luxembourg. 
