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ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
ourselves to saying that the slaughter of pneumonic cattle, the 
sequestration of the suspected, and the disinfection of con¬ 
taminated localities, have all been much anterior to the same 
measures which have been scarcely tried in the Netherlands. 
With regard to the complementary measures, the marking 
of the suspected and the publicity given to the existence of 
infectious centres by placards, they have an importance which 
had not been overlooked by the Belgian Government. 
In speaking of inoculation, the circular adroitly evades a 
difficulty in not pronouncing categorically on its value. The 
government recommends it, but does not wish to render it 
compulsory , as it would have to be continued, and would 
entail considerable expense. If the Netherlands government 
were convinced of the efficacy of this measure, ought it to 
have confined itself to only recommending it ? Might it not 
have required it to be carried into effect, if not in a general 
manner, at any rate in the case of animals suspected , because 
of their cohabitation with the diseased, and subordinate the 
granting of an indemnity to the preliminary inoculation of 
animals belonging to this category ? This requirement w r ould 
otherwise have had the advantage of abbreviating the very 
long period of three months fixed for sequestration. 
We remark in a part of the circular, adds Dele, that the 
government shares the opinion of those who consider 
pleuro-pneumonia as propagated exclusively by contagion; 
and afterwards it says that in certain parts of the provinces 
of southern Holland and Utrecht there were only sporadic 
cases. This is a contradiction which we have vainly endea¬ 
voured to account for. 
INSPECTION OF MEAT AND CATTLE AT VIENNA. 
The Council of Health for Lower Austria, and which is 
ocated in Vienna, has decided at the meeting held in 
August, 1871:— 
1. That the inspection of cattle and meat shall, for the 
future, only be made by veterinary surgeons, surgeons, or 
persons who, in addition to their having attended the theo¬ 
retical course on the inspection of meat, which is delivered 
at the Veterinary Institute, had also assisted for six weeks at 
a practical course of inspection given in a slaughter-house :— 
&. That in every slaughter-house a veterinary surgeon shall 
be charged with the inspection of cattle and meat, as well as 
the practical course of inspection :—• 
3. That all meat, before being admitted into Vienna, must 
