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which passed through Berlin prior to the closing of the rail¬ 
way. They came with special certificates of health, and were 
found on their arrival here to be perfectly free from disease. 
Besides this outbreak of cattle plague in Prussia, the 
disease continues to prevail in Poland, Galicia, Hungary, 
Transylvania, and the Hanubian Provinces. In Hungary the 
Department of Pesth has now been the seat of the plague 
for several consecutive months. 
THE SIBERIAN CATTLE PLxiGUE. 
In common with other contagious diseases of animals, the 
Siberian plague is reported to be spreading to an extent to 
cause alarm for the health of the people in some parts 
of Russia. This is particularly the case in the district 
around St. Petersburg, and also at Helsingfors, on the north 
shore of the Gulf of Finland. 
At St. Petersburg an order has been published by the head 
of the police directing the inhabitants of the towns and 
villages in which the disease has manifested itself not to buy 
any meat unless the slaughtered animals had been certified 
to be free of the plague. All persons are also enjoined to give 
notice of outbreaks of the disease. The cattle teams, which 
are employed in bringing provisions from the country into 
the town of Tsarskoe-Selo, are likewise subjected to a strict 
medical examination. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
In our last montlPs publication attention was called to the 
spread of pleuro-pneumonia in many parts of England, and 
also in Scotland and Ireland. From the latter named coun¬ 
try we learn that the disease is prevailing to a very serious 
extent in many places, and among them in the county of 
Dublin. Dairy cows sent from the city of Dublin into the 
grazing lands of the environs are reported as suffering from 
the malady. There appears to be no means of restricting 
the movement of these diseased cows, excepting within the 
confines of the borough itself, and even here the market 
inspectors, in whom the power is vested, seem to be in¬ 
sufficient in number to properly carry out the regulations. 
Ihe wide-spread existence of pleuro-pneumonia in Ireland 
