944 SANITARY POLICE AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
entirety, has been proved by the experience of all ages and 
all countries, the Conference has added another. This regu¬ 
lation is entirely new and highly important, both from the 
point of view of commerce and as a sanitary precaution. It 
consists in the obligation of every State in which the cattle 
plague may manifest itself to announce immediately, by 
telegraph, the appearance of the disease, first of all to the 
Governments of the adjoining countries, and afterwards to 
those of the States which have expressed their desire to be 
informed of such outbreaks. 
Where the locality infected by the cattle plague is less than 
75 kilometres (45 miles) from the frontier, the authorities 
of the district to which the locality belongs w 7 ill have 
the responsibility of announcing by telegraph the appear¬ 
ance of the disease to the authorities of the adjoining 
countries. 
A minute inquiry will be made as to the channels of intro¬ 
duction and propagation of the disease, and the result of this 
inquiry will, with the shortest possible delay, be conveyed to 
the authorities of the countries which seem to be menaced by 
an invasion of the plague. 
Each country w 7 here the cattle plague is actually raging 
will be required to publish in its official journal a weekly 
statement of the condition of the disease, the measures adopted 
to restrict its propagation, the successive modifications which 
circumstances have required in them, and finally the day 
when they will cease to be in operation. 
This statement will be sent to the editors of the official 
journals of the States which desire to receive it. 
These sanitary measures will be productive of the greatest 
advantages for all countries if they are scrupulously carried 
out wherever the plague shows itself, because in that case 
every one will be on his guard against it, viz.: The authori¬ 
ties of the countries the most immediately menaced, in 
adopting without delay the preventive measures which are 
recommended in such cases; and the commercial world in 
abstaining from dealing with the infected localities or 
districts. 
The first idea of these excellent sanitary measures, pro¬ 
posed to the Conference by one of the delegates of Germany, 
belongs to M. Zundel, an able and unassuming veterinary 
surgeon of Mulhouse, who published it in the c Recueil de 
Medecine veterinaire/ It is both a duty and a pleasure to 
give him credit for it here. 
The International Conference has not desired to institute 
a new sanitary regime, for the purpose of preventing the 
