90 THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 3869. 
of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, have been attacked anew by the 
plague. 
The number of animals which have perished or been 
slaughtered owing to the plague since its first appearance 
amounts, according to present advices, to 198 head of cattle 
in the Government of Gumbinnen; to 1419 cattle, 1013 
sheep, and 237 goats, in the Government of Frankfort-on- 
the-Oder ; to 137 cattle, 12 sheep, and 1 goat, in the 
Government of Potsdam ; and 8 cattle in the Government 
of Merseburg. 
The latest intelligence states that the cattle plague has 
not spread in the district of Gumbinnen. It has broken 
out at Gartois, near Ost Sternberg, district Frankfort-on- 
the-Oder, and at Hartmannsdorf, near Schivlivitz, district 
Merseberg. On the 6th January the plague appeared in 
seven more farms in the district of Frankfort, already 
declared infected, and in one near Potsdam. 
Eight villages in district of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, and 
Blumberg in Potsdam district, are, on the other hand, 
declared free from the cattle plague. 
The last official report of 28th December relating to cattle 
plague in Austria-Hungary states that the plague exists in 
six villages, district of Macarsea, in Dalmatia, in three 
villages in district Sing, and in eight villages in district of 
Cattaro, all in Dalmatia, and in seven other villages of the 
same Government. Also in two places in Galicia, and in 
two districts of Hungary; and in three villages in the 
Military Frontier, and in three communes in Bosnia. 
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 December, 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:— 
