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ECZEMA EPIZOOTICA.—FOOT AND AIOUTTI 
DISEASE. 
The present outbreak of this disease bids fair to prove the 
most extensive, if not the most fatal, which the country has 
experienced since the original appearance of the malady in 
1839. In the third week of-October sixty-eight counties 
were affected in Great Britain; the centres of disease 
numbering upwards of 3000, the new ones, or places re¬ 
ported for the first time, being about 850. The malady has 
also shown itself in Ireland, having been conveyed into Antrim 
County, and to Newry, Co. Down, ma Southampton, by 
some Channel Island cattle. It has likewise been introduced 
into the Isle of Wight. 
The accounts which reach us from the Continent, show 
also a most serious state of things. Schleswig-Holstein, 
Hanover, Mecklenburg, Prussia, Holland, Belgium, and 
France, are seats of the disease, and more recent reports 
speak of its spread to Bavaria and other German States. 
Sheep and pigs are affected to a great extent, and during the 
past month few cargoes have arrived at the port of London in 
a perfectly healthy condition. 
In this country, sheep and pigs, and also ordinary farm¬ 
yard poultry—fowls and turkeys—in many places, liavc 
suffered considerably. In this we have a repetition of the 
state of things which accompanied the outbreaks of 1839-40, 
’45, ’50, and ’61-62. 
Rumours have been current of the malady having shown 
itself in the human subject. Among other cases of the 
kind, mention may be made of a farmer’s family, resid¬ 
ing in Surrey, consisting of himself, wife, and daughter, 
having suffered from the disease. In these cases, vesicles 
existed on the lips and tongue, and were associated with con¬ 
siderable fever, and acute pain of the head and back, lasting 
ten days before recovery was complete. 
SHEEP DISEASE IN SOUTH AMERICA. 
FROM Monte Video information has been received that the 
sheep farmers are sustaining ruinous losses from the preva¬ 
lence of a disease which is destroying tliirty per cent, and 
upwards of their flocks. The malady is supposed to owe its 
origin to the long continued rains of last summer and autumn, 
and the cold of the winter. It would appear from this that 
