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ANALYSIS OP CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
benefit, unless at the same time a rigorous sequestration of 
suspected animals be carried out for three months, as well as 
the disinfection of infected animals. Sequestration is rendered 
efficacious by marking suspected cattle and the announcement 
of the existence of foci of infection by means of handbills. 
Neither does the Government share the opinion of those who 
recommend that the disease should be exclusively combated 
by inoculation'; for in admitting that this operation, when 
applied to every bovine, confers immunity upon them, it w r ould 
be necessary to continue it in future generations of cattle and 
on all those imported. But it is hoped that the owners of 
stock would voluntarily inoculate their beasts; for with regard 
to compulsory inoculation it could not be thought of, as it 
would cost the treasury as many millions of florins as there 
were cattle—about one and a half millions (reckoning each 
inoculation at the minimum cost of one florin); it would also 
be necessary to continue it, and to indemnify the proprietors 
for the losses they might sustain through inoculation, either 
in reimbursing them the total value of the cattle that died, 
or in repairing the damage caused by the loss of the tail. 
The following table gives the results obtained since the 
promulgation of the new law : 
Periods of Four Weeks. 
Number 
of 
animals 
declared 
diseased. 
Expro¬ 
priated. 
Killed 
by the 
proprie¬ 
tors. 
Died. 
Cured 
Result 
un¬ 
known. 
Not 
dis¬ 
eased. 
Number 
of com¬ 
munes 
infected. 
1st to 28th Jan. 
1087 
612 
171 
112 
94 
89 
9 
157 
29th Jan. to 25th Feb. 
960 
47 
244 
50 
32 
592 
4 
168 
26th ifeb. to 25th Mar. 
757 
46 
139 
50 
13 
509 
144 
26th Mar. to 22nd April 
549 
23 
111 
56 
7 
352 
110 
23rd April to 20th May 
439 
25 
76 
40 
7 
290 
1 
105 
21st May to 17th June 
393 
32 
84 
30 
13 
234 
94 
18th June to 15th July 
298 
64 
54 
23 
12 
145 
104 
16th J uly to 12th Aug. 
222 
85 
24 
13 
2 
98 
91 
13th Aug. to 9 th Sept. 
347 
119 
46 
23 
159 
110 
10th Sept, to 7th Oct. 
343 
192 
68 
15 
5 
63 
98 
8th Oct. to 4th IN ov. . 
304 
265 
19 
1 
3 
16 
97 
5 th Nov. to 2nd Dec. 
155 
143 
8 
2 
... 
2 
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In the first period of four weeks the number of animals 
declared diseased amounted to 1087, distributed in 157 com¬ 
munes, 153 of which w^ere in North Holland, south of 
Utrecht. As the budget for 1871 only allowed 5000 florins 
for the expiopnation of animals affected with pleuro-pneu- 
