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SMALLPOX OF SHEEP. 
to the returns, sixtv-six counties were the seat of the 
malady down to the middle of November, in the plaee 
of sixty-eight to the corresponding period of the pre¬ 
ceding month. A similar diminution had also taken place 
in the number of centres of the disease and of the places 
reported as atfected for the first time; the proportion of the 
former being as 2600 to 3000, and of the latter as 740 to 
800. In Ireland, however, the malady is said to be on the 
increase. On the Continent it would also seem to be ex¬ 
tending, as accounts h^ve reached us of its appearance in 
Gallipoli and many other places in the vicinity of the Dar¬ 
danelles, and likewise in the district of Malmo, in Sweden, 
most of the intervening countries between these far-distant 
localities being still affected to a greater or less extent. 
SCAB OF SHEEP. 
No diminution appears to have taken place in the number 
of places in which scab exists in the neighbourhood of Stettin. 
The disease is also rife in many other parts of the Continent. 
Two cargoes of infected sheep have been imported into this 
count! V, but in both instances all the animals were killed at 
the port of debarkation. One of these cargoes came into Leith 
from Aarhuus, and the other into Goole from Antwerp. 
Scab continues to prevail also in many parts of Great 
Britain, and since our last month’s publication several lots 
of sheep sent for sale have been seized by the inspectors at 
the markets. In most of these cases fines have been inflicted 
on the owners of the animals. 
SMALLPOX OF SHEEP. 
From the information we have received with regard to the 
prevalence of this disease on the Continent, it would appear 
that the malady is not so rife, on the whole, as it was a short 
time since. It, however, still exists in many parts of Pome¬ 
rania, and, like scab, it not only has not been eradicated from 
the neighbourhood of Stettin, but is said to be on the in¬ 
crease there. 
