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Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
SANITARY POLICE AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
By M. Botjley. 
(Translated from the * Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Seances de 
l’Acaderme des Sciences, 5 vol. lxxiv, No. 18, April 29, 1872, pp. 1154- 
1165.—H. M. J.) 
An international Sanitary Conference was held at Vienna 
on the l6th March last, at the suggestion of the Austro- 
Hungarian Government, to propose a code of regulations for 
a uniform sanitary police. By adopting uniform measures 
both for preventing the introduction of cattle plague, as well 
as for arresting its propagation, there need be no interruption 
of the ordinary commercial relations between the signitaries 
of the Convention, even if, notwithstanding the preventive 
measures adopted, the cattle plague were introduced into one 
district or another of the different countries. 
Eleven States were represented at the Conference by 
tw r enty-six delegates, namely, Germany, Austro-Hungary, 
Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Roumanian 
Principalities, Russia, Servia, Switzerland, and Turkey. Of 
the delegates fifteen belonged to the veterinary profession, 
and eleven were administrative functionaries attached to the 
sanitary service of their respective countries, and well qualified 
to pronounce an opinion on the propositions which required 
to be submitted to their judgment. 
The questions on which the Conference had been sum¬ 
moned to deliberate were no fewer than sixty-five in number, 
and several others were added at the request of the repre¬ 
sentatives themselves. One remarkable circumstance deserves 
to be mentioned at the outset, as it differs completely from 
the ordinary rule in such cases, namely, that, notwithstand¬ 
ing the large number of members of the Conference, and of 
the questions to be considered, the decisions formulated in 
their f Report on the Principles which should serve as the 
Basis of International Regulations against the Cattle Plague* 
were adopted unanimously, with the exception of tw r o cases 
of secondary importance, on "which the agreement was not so 
complete. 
This perfect accord, which is by no means customary in 
matters relating to medical science, is a consequence of the 
fact that there now^ exists no divergence of opinion as to the 
foreign nature of the cattle plague in reference to Central and 
