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Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Cattle plague is still very prevalent in Russia. 
In Austria-Hungary the disease appears to be on the 
increase, and is reported to exist in nine districts in Galicia, 
eight in Bohemia, two in Dalmatia, one in Hungary, three 
in Croatia, three in Croatian Military Frontier, five in Scla- 
vonian Military Frontier, and eight in Bosnia. 
The German Empire was officially declared to be free 
from cattle plague on the 6th of last March. 
In Turkey, cattle plague is said to exist in the districts 
of Jassy and Falcin. It has disappeared in the district of 
Yaslin, but has reappeared in the district of Bacan. A 
violent outbreak of cattle plague has been reported to have 
occurred in the whole of the Sandjak of Acre. 
With reference to Bohemia the New Free Press of Vienna 
says that the cattle plague is becoming more and more 
formidable in Bohemia. Several hundred places have been 
attacked by the disease. They are surrounded by a military 
cordon, and as far as possible prevented from carrying on 
intercourse beyond its boundaries. The loss to the inhabit¬ 
ants of the districts is reported to be very considerable, and 
is not totally represented by that of the cattle slaughtered. 
Agriculture is in many places at a standstill, the cattle which 
serve as general beasts of burden being locked up wherever 
the disease appears. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
In the Netherlands during the four weeks between the 
23rd February and 22nd March, only eighteen cases of 
lung disease have been registered. This is a considerable 
reduction upon the number of cases which were returned 
during the corresponding period of last year, when sixty-four 
cases were registered. 
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1878. 
Return of the Number of Places in Great Britain upon 
which contagious or infectious disease (except sheep-scab) 
has been reported to have existed during the week ended 
March 8th, 1879, with particulars relating thereto. 
