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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
The last report of the progress of pleuro-pneumonia in 
the Netherlands indicates a considerable decline in the 
number of cases. During the month of November there 
were nineteen animals attacked in the districts of Guelder- 
land and North and South Holland. 
In those parts of the country from which the malady has • 
been extirpated, it is proposed to adopt the extreme measure 
of slaughtering the whole herd where a case of pleuro-pneu¬ 
monia is detected. 
In this country the disease continues to prevail, and the 
provisions of the Act of 1878 and Orders of Council are 
being enforced stringently in some districts. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
Very few centres of infection are now known to exist in 
this kingdom, indeed, we do not recollect a time since the 
introduction of the affection when there were so few. 
Under the provisions of the Act of 1878 and the Orders of 
Council, the malady should practically be extinguished in 
a short period. 
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1869. 
Return of the Number of Foreign Animals brought 
by Sea to Ports in Great Britain, which on inspection on 
landing, within the month of November, 1878, have been 
found to be affected with any Contagious or Infectious 
Disease, specifying the Disease, and the Ports from which, 
and to which, such Animals were brought, and the mode in 
which such Animals have been disposed of: 
Also, whether the Foreign Ports from which the Animals 
are brought are in Scheduled or Unscheduled Countries, and 
the Number of Healthy Animals brought in the same Vessels 
with the Diseased Animals, and the mode in which such 
Healthy Animals have been disposed of, whether by slaughter 
or otherwise;— 
