Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
CATTLE DISEASE IN CHINA—RINDERPEST. 
We have received the Customs Gazette of Shanghai, January 
to March, 1872, from which we extract the following report 
on Steppe Murrain in Shanghai, by Dr. Edward Henderson : 
My attention was first directed to disease among horned 
cattle in Shanghai in the autumn of 1868. At that time 
many animals stalled within the municipal limits died, and 
considerable apprehension was felt lest the public health 
should suffer from the diseased meat which might find its 
way into the shops of native butchers. Dr. Thin, in a letter 
addressed to the North China Daily News , gave the particulars 
of a visit which he paid to the slaughter-houses in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of the New 7 Cemetery, on the 21st of October in 
that year. His visit was made with a view to the exa¬ 
mination of some diseased beef regarding which he had 
received special information. The peculiar characters of the 
meat being fully detailed, Dr. Thin w 7 ent on to describe the 
-morbid appearances which he noted in the body of a sick 
cow 7 , slaughtered at his request, when apparently in the first 
stage of the disease : 
“The heart and lungs were healthy. The stomach was 
distended with fluid and a quantity of food that had been 
there for some time. Its internal surface was congested and 
perfectly black throughout. The outer covering of the intes¬ 
tines was in the first stage of inflammation, that is to say, 
peritoneal inflammation was setting in.” 
Dr. Thin further stated that the disease w 7 as considered by 
the natives to be “ ma ping” (blood disease), and that it was 
recognised by them as of common occurrence at that time. 
“ They (the Chinese) say that the appetite fails for several 
days, and then the animal droops and would soon die, but 
that as soon as the disease is unmistakable it is slaughtered 
for food.” It w r as not at that time specially my duty to 
