CATTLE PLAGUE. 931 
and fresh stock been brought on to the premises where cattle 
plague had existed. 
The Bridlington district has also been declared free, and 
cattle have been grazing for some weeks in the fields where 
the diseased animals were slaughtered and buried. 
In the Pocklington district, where cattle plague was de¬ 
tected on August 27th, and continued, in spite of the mea¬ 
sures which were employed to eradicate it, for nearly two 
months, no fresh case has occurred for nearly six w’eeks, and 
it may be fairly concluded that the district is now 7 quit of the 
disease. 
The cattle plague order, which was issued on September 
7th, ceases to operate on December 1st, and will not, under 
the circumstances above described, be renewed. 
With regard to our observations last month on the in¬ 
correct statements w T hich several of our contemporaries had 
persisted in promulgating, respecting the disposal of some of 
the imported cargoes of cattle plague animals, we have had 
our attention directed to the following remarks in the Durham 
Chronicle of October 25th : 
"An Expensive Funeral. —A correspondent draw 7 s 
“ attention to an item in the chief constable’s report, pub- 
“ lished in the Chronicle of last week, showing that the inter- 
“ ment and disinfection of twenty-six cattle-plague beasts at 
“ West Hartlepool had cost the county £72 19<s v or £2 16 s. Id, 
c( per beast. Our correspondent asks whether it was absolutely 
“ essential that the obsequies of the defunct bovines should 
“ have been carried out on so expensive a scale, and points 
“ out that the carcases might have been destroyed by fire for 
“ a very much smaller sum. As the matter stands, the 
“ undertaker’s bill seems to have been rather a large one.” 
Cattle plague still occupies an extensive field in Central 
and Eastern Europe. From Vienna we learn that the malady 
exists in various districts in Hungary. 
At least forty communes in Hungary are infected. Bohe¬ 
mia, Galicia, and Moravia have also many centres of in¬ 
fection. 
The disease is also prevalent in Sclavonia and Dalmatia, 
but the Turkish authorities take but little notice of it, and 
hence it is found to be very difficult to enforce precautions. 
The situation is considered to be serious, which we take to 
mean the disease runs its course unchecked. 
Cattle plague also prevails in Russo-Poland, at Grossen, 
and in various places in the of Goverment of Warsaw, 
More than a month ago an outbreak of cattle plague 
