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OVARIAN DROPSY. 
England receives a large supply of cattle. Not only arc 
Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania greatly infected, but 
also Poland, Gallicia, and Hungary. From the latter country 
in particular cattle are drawn into Austria, Bohemia, Bavaria, 
and Silesia, and often forwarded without delay to Western 
Europe. It behoves the authorities to exercise the greatest 
vioilance ajjainst the reintroduction of the disease, which 
threatens again to extend its devastating influence far and 
Avide. 
PLEUBO-PNEUMONIA. 
This disease is again on the increase, not only in tlie 
London dairies, hut in several parts of the country, and also 
on the Continent. Very recently Ave have received informa- 
. tion of its existence in a severe form in Spain. In the ])re- 
sent state of legislation on contagious diseases of cattle it is 
important that the members of the profession should make 
public all outbreaks of these affections as early as possible. 
We should be glad to assist them in doing this, and also 
in recording in a systematic manner the general state of tlie 
health in their respective neighbourhoods of all animals used 
as food for the people. 
Any A'eterinary surgeon Avho Avould be Avilling to supply 
the necessary returns Avould greatly oblige by putting himself 
in communication Avith us, that arrangements may be made 
for the purpose. 
SMALL-POX OE SHEEP. 
It appears, from information Avhich has been received here, 
that the smallpox of sheep is far from being exterminated 
ill Western Europe. The disease is reported to have very 
recently broken out in the neighbourhood of Hamburg, 
and to be still prevalent in some parts of Holland, par¬ 
ticularly near to Botterdam. Under these circumstances 
it can be scarcely expected that the Government Avill Avith- 
(IraAv the Order of Council, Avhich requires that all imported 
sheep shall undergo a quarantine of fourteen days, or be 
slaughtered Avithin four days of debarkation at any of the 
ports. 
OVARIAN DROPSY. 
IMr. S. J. Payment recently foiAvardcd for examination a 
specimen of diseased ovarium Avhich he removed from an old 
