extracts from foreign Journals. 
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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN PRUSSIA. 
Anthrax —lYas less frequent than last year. The losses have 
been 28 horses, 1,009 bovines, 654 sheep, and 171 swine. The 
number of affected districts was smaller also. The disease was 
most common toward the end of summer and in the fall of the 
year. Silesia furnished a quarter and Pomerania one fifth of the 
losses, which in some places broke out amongst deers and boars. 
The cases were more numerous in some of the places where it 
had existed before, and it seemed demonstrated that certain fields 
had become true centers of infection because of infected cada¬ 
vers buried there. The cases of transmission by inoculation were 
rare. 
Twenty-five persons were infected and three died. 
2d. Foot and Mouth Disease .—Comparatively to past year, 
this is less common. It was not found in more than 657 herds— 
most of them were in Silesia, Brandenburgh, and Saxony. 
Inoculated animals had a mild affection with a short duration. 
No bad effect of the use of the milk was observed. 
3d. Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia —Has spread some, and 
affected more animals. 2,090 animals were recognized as diseased ; 
of these 86 died, 1,778 were destroyed by order of the authorities, 
and 234 at the request of the owners. 76 per cent, of the diseased 
animals belonged to Saxony, Brandenburgh, Pomerania and 
Hesse-Nassau districts. The results of inoculation were not 
positive. 
4th. Glanders and Farcy. —The number of animals thus af¬ 
fected has been 2,073. Among those 122 died, 1,745 were de¬ 
stroyed by the authorities, 127 by request. 
5th. Small Fox —Has'been more frequent—out of 1,210 
herds, preventive inoculation was practised—16,369 sheep died of 
this disease. 
Statistics have proved that preventive inoculation is most often 
the cause of the different invasions of the disease, and that it is 
only in the districts were it is performed that the disease is sta¬ 
tionary enzootic. 
Preventive inoculation is not so extensively put in practice. 
