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the owners. The reimbursement for those killed per order of the 
police amounted to 344,808 marks ($86,202). Nothing new has 
been developed in regard to the value of inoculation. 
Glanders (Malleus) acquired a great extension. The number 
of horses which died or were killed amounted to 2,740, while 
3,061 were found diseased. The disease was most prevalent on 
the eastern borders and in the province of Brandenburg. As re¬ 
demption for animals killed per order of the police, was paid out 
406,480 marks ($101,620). An infection of man from animals is 
not reported. 
By variolas ovinae we have a loss of 6,331 sheep, a lethality 
which was doubtless in reality much exceeded. Peremptory inoc¬ 
ulation was recorded in 581, and protection in 321 forms. The 
pest attained its greatest extension in the provinces of Pommern, 
Pressia, Brandenburg and Posen; where the protective inocula¬ 
tion of lambs is yearly practised, the same seems to offer no ame¬ 
lioration against the losses from the disease. 
Maladie du coit was not observed. 
The exanthema of the genital organs of cattle and horses was 
observed by 53 of the latter and 212 of the former. Scabies was 
observed by 609 horses, of which 56 were either killed or died. 
Scabies ovina, by far the most extended infectious animal disease 
in Prussia, was observed by 94,632 animals, of whichM,080 were 
either killed or died 
Babies canina acquired no considerable extension. Babies, 
or suspicion of the same, came to observation by 521 dogs, 9 
horses, 139 cattle, 27 sheep, 24 swine. 119 roaming dogs were 
killed, and 585 which had been in contact with rabid ones. Eight 
persons died from the bite of rabid dogs. One veterinarian com¬ 
mitted suicide on the first appearance of the symptoms. 
Binderpest was introduced by smuggled animals from Poland 
toward the end of 1876, and acquired considerable extension. 
The number of invested localities amounted to 80; the total loss, 
910 cattle, of which 62 died and 848 were killed per order of 
police; 335 sheep and 4 goats were also killed per order of 
police. 
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