SHEEP SCAB. 
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In the Department du Nord many communes are infected. 
The malady prevails to a disquieting extent in several places, 
in the arrondissements of Dunkerque, and Maerebrouck, 
which adjoins our territory. The plague is far from being 
stamped out in this department, and it is impossible that it 
should be otherwise when one sees the little care which is 
taken to arrest the propagation of the malady. 
From most recent reports which we have received it 
appears that the most simple precautions for extinguishing 
the centres of infection and preventing the propagation of 
the disease are neglected. 
In Poland cattle plague has increased to a serious extent, 
and we learn that in consequence of its prevalence in the 
Governments of Warsaw and Radom, all fairs and movements 
of beasts have been prohibited for the present. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
It will be seen from the official return that foot-and-mouth 
disease is widely spread on the Continent. Animals affected 
with this disease have been landed during the last month 
from Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburgh, Bremen, Boulogne, 
Dunkirk, Copenhagen, Corunna, and Dantzic. 
In Worcestershire and Lincolnshire there have been several 
fresh outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, but generally the 
malady is declining so far that it has ceased to be a subject of 
constant observation. From recent returns the disease would 
appear to be steadily on the increase in Norfolk. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
This disease maintains its normal rate of prevalence in 
the country. There are thirty-six counties infected, and 
the centres of infection number about a hundred and twenty. 
SHEEP SCAB. 
Sheep-scab is reported to exist in Pomerania, in seven 
districts in the Government of Stettin, and three in the 
Government of Koslin. 
