Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
From information received from St. Petersburg in the 
beginning of this month, cattle plague still exists in the 
‘ following Governments bordering on Austria and Germany, 
and in those adjoining the Black and Baltic Seas, namely, 
in Bessarabia, Warsaw, Volhynia, Ekaterinoshav, Podolia, 
St. Petersburg, and Kherson. 
In Turkey, cattle plague is stated to be still existing in 
the district of Jassy. 
Cattle plague has once more appeared in the German 
Empire. Telegraphic information, dated 30th November, 
reported that the disease had broken out at Stallupohnen, 
in the Government of Gumbinnen, in a farm yard occupied 
by fifty-three head of cattle. 
The introduction of the plague has been found to be owing 
to cattle smuggled from Russia. 
Later information is to the effect that the disease has 
appeared in other places, in the districts of Potsdam, 
Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in the circles of Lebus, Goldin, 
West Sternberg, Koenigsburg, &c. 
The precautions and extirpatory measures authorised by 
law have been enforced in the infected and threatened dis¬ 
tricts. Cattle attacked, as well as those suspected, have 
either been slaughtered or isolated. 
The larger cattle markets threatened, namely, Berlin, 
Breslau, Leipsig, and Hamburg-Altona, have also been 
closed for the present. 
The disease is now stated to be widely spreading, and it 
has been officially announced that the plague has broken out 
in twenty-four places in the Government district of Frank¬ 
fort-on-the-Oder, and in three places in that of Potsdam. 
The number of animals that have been attacked and have 
died since the first appearance of the plague at Stallupohnen 
up to the 10th of December, as well as of those that have 
been slaughtered as suspected, amounts in the district of 
Gumbinnen to 103 head of cattle; in the district of Frank¬ 
fort-on-the-Oder to 416 head of cattle, 254 sheep, and 11 
goats; and in the district of Potsdam to 53 head of cattle 
and 3 sheep. 
