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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
This disease is stated on reliable authority to exist in 
an aggravated form among the cows stabled in Brooklyn 
and its vicinity in the State of New York ; many animals 
are suffering from the malady. 
Pleuro-pneumonia has also broken out in a malignant form 
among the cattle at Westbury, in Queen’s County, and at 
other places on Long Island. 
In the State of Maryland, seventeen head of cattle in 
Harford County are reported to have died of pleuro-pneu¬ 
monia. The disease appears to he local and confined to one 
farm, and cattle intended for exportation to the United King¬ 
dom are not to he transported through the infected district. 
In the Netherlands, from 8th of August to 4th of Sep¬ 
tember, the following cases of pleuro-pneumonia occurred : 
In North Brabant . . . .3 cases. 
In South Holland . . . . 3 ,, 
Total . . . . 6 ,, 
In Great Britain there were, during the thirteen weeks 
ending September 25th, 280 fresh outbreaks of pleuro-pneu¬ 
monia reported, and 756 cattle attacked. In the correspond¬ 
ing period of 1879 there were 414 fresh attacks of this disease 
reported, and 1178 cattle attacked. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
A serious outbreak of this disease is reported to have oc¬ 
curred in the North of France, and is said to be very general 
in the Department of the “ Nord/’ hut owing to the vigorous 
measures adopted for its suppression appears to be rapidly 
diminishing ; this disease also exists in the “ Pas de Calais 
only a few cases, however, have occurred there compared with 
the Department of the “ Nord. v 
In Great Britain, during the four weeks from September 
26th to October 24th, fresh outbreaks of footand-mouth 
disease have been reported in the following counties:—- 
Bedford, Bucks, Derby, Hertford, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, 
and Warwick. 
SHEEP-POX. 
A considerable outbreak of this disease has occurred in 
several of the districts of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 
Schwerin. 
