FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
397 
Maryland, Delawar, Virginia, and in the district of Co¬ 
lumbia and this report of the very unsatisfactory condition 
of the health of the United States cattle has been con¬ 
firmed by the Inspectors of the Privy Council stationed at 
the various ports of Great Britain, for it would appear 
that, during the year 1878, 137 cattle affected with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia were landed in this country from the States. 
Very great efforts are being made in some of the States 
to extirpate this disease, but it appears that no beneficial 
result has as yet been obtained, inasmuch as during the 
first five months of this year upwards of 153 cases have 
been detected by the Inspectors of the Privy Council in cattle 
landed here. 
In the Netherlands, during the first sixteen weeks of this 
year, pleuro-pneumonia appears to have been confined to the 
provinces of South Holland, Friesland, and Groningen, and 
only twenty-six cases have been reported. 
During the first three months of this year the disease 
has declined to a very considerable extent throughout 
Great Britain, having been reported from only twenty-three 
counties in England and seven in Scotland; no cases have 
been returned from Wales. 
During the three months ending March £7th, 1880, 733 
cases were reported in Great Britain. In the corresponding 
period of last year the number was 1034. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
This disease is but little heard of now. Isolated out¬ 
breaks have been reported during the first three months of 
the year from Hunts, Somerset, and the Isle of Ely. 
Facts and Observations. 
Horse Distemper. —A “ distemper ’’ is reported to be 
attacking horses, generally, in McLean County, U.S.A. The 
disease, whatever it may be, is said to have appeared “ in an 
unusually malignant form.” 
Liver Fluke. —The liver fluke is spoken of by the 
Sydney Mail as being prevalent amongst flocks in some parts 
of the northern districts of the Colony of New South Wales, 
