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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The outbreak of cattle plague at Coblentz, intelligence of 
which reached us from Dusseldorf last month, appears to 
have been immediately suppressed by the slaughter of the 
diseased beast, and the adoption of the usual precautionary 
means to prevent the spread of infection. According to the 
last report no other case of the disease than the one referred 
to in the Veterinarian for January occurred in the district. 
Accounts from Warsaw state that there has been a sensible 
diminution in the severity of cattle plague, owing as is thought 
to the cold weather. In our experience temperature exercises 
little or no influence over the progress of the disease. Not¬ 
withstanding the altered benefit arising from the change of 
weather, it appears that the plague exists in twelve districts 
in Poland. 
Cattle plague is still raging in the Austrian dominion's, in 
Hungary, Sclavonia, Galicia, Moravia, Bohemia, Buckowina, 
Dalmatia, and Lower Austria. An outbreak of the pest is 
also reported to have occurred in Corfu, to which place it 
is presumed the disease was imported from the opposite 
continent. 
In Trebizond the cattle plague is reported to have almost 
disappeared. It is also diminishing in Bosnia and Servia. 
Trieste is reported free. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
Fresh outbreaks of this affection continue to occur in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country, but the malady is undoubtedly 
subsiding. There has been observed for some time past a 
considerable modification in the severity of the attacks, and 
in some districts where the disease prevailed extensively and 
in a virulent form it has entirely subsided. 
PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
This disease maintains its ordinary rate of prevalence; 
nothing of special interest has been reported in reference to 
this disease from the agricultural districts, while from the 
chief centres of infection, the dairies of large towns in this 
kingdom, no reports have been received. 
