4 
r 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
257 
Foreign 
ports from 
which 
brought. 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
to which 
brought. 
Disease. 
Number of Animals afeected. 
Disposal. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
Total. 
Slaughtered at 
place of landing. 
Hamburg . 
Hartlepool 
Foot-and- 
Mouth 
1 
• • • 
• • • 
1 
1 
7 7 
Hull . . 
77 
9 
• • • 
• • • 
• • • 
9 
9 
77 
Newcastle- 
on-Tyne 
77 
1 
2 
• • • 
... 
3 
3 
Total . . . 
Foot-and- 
Mouth 
11 
2 
... 
... 
13 
13 
“ Privy Council Office, “ ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Veterinary Department, 13th March, 1873.” Secretary. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Cattle plague prevails, to some extent, in Salonica, and 
the fact assumes an importance which would not otherwise 
belong to it, owing to the exportation of cattle, buffaloes, 
goats, and sheep from that country to France. The Turkish 
authorities have issued an order prohibiting exportation; 
but it is stated that several French butchers have arrived for 
the purpose of making extensive purchases, and they are 
using their utmost efforts to induce the authorities to with¬ 
draw the prohibition. 
Cattle plague continues in Warsaw, and has reappeared 
in Ragusa, owing to the introduction of pork from Herze¬ 
govina. The disease also exists in various departments of 
Austria Proper, and on the frontier near Trebizond. 
According to the statements which have recently appeared 
in the public papers nearly 1000 cattle have been killed in 
the neighbourhood of Vienna only during the last three 
months to suppress the cattle plague. 
Referring to the continued extension of the disease from 
the Steppes of Russia into other portions of that vast empire, 
and also into Western Europe, the Lancet of March 22nd 
says that— 
“The Voix, commenting upon the labours of a commission 
charged by the Minster of the Interior to inquire into the 
means of diminishing the bovine pest, gives a sad account 
of the devastations of this epizootic among the Russian herds. 
It states that every government in the Empire, not even ex- 
