The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-22
THE OATfLE PLAGUE-
ITS HisfOry-TntrOductl Into Eng
n giand-Precautionhry Measures.


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In the old world two mighty scourges
are at the present time marching west
WArd-one destroying man, the other
beast. The former is the Asiatic cholera
reported at last dates 10 be carrying of
one thousand human beings daily at Con-
StsntinoPlej ths lattsr q the cattle plague,
said to be destroying thousands of vAlu.
able cattle. The following interesting ex.
trt cts are from carefully prepared article
in The EreniHg Post under the caption of
The RinderPest"-the name, some say,
the plsgue besIs on the continent:
HISTORY OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE
Such murrains have occurred over snd
over again in Europe, and an infectious
distenper is supposed. 70 preYsil perma !.
nently among the, vsst herds, which are
Pastured in Siberia and on the steppes of
Asia; Il depopulsted the psstursges of the
continent in the time of TheodOsius; it
iCllowei ChsIlemsgne back from DEN
mark, and made havoc Of the French
herds; it scourged Europe in the years
Sl7, IN 1928, and then again in 1925. The
worst instance Of ALL however, occurred
from l7IO to 17l7. On that occasion the
steppe-murrsin passed by way of Tsrtary,
Russia and Poland, all over the West and |
in the hrst three years 100000 oxen
perished. gFWGTEa T =
In l745 it prevailed in ZsAland !. in 1879 |
Holland lost in one year 375 AL of her
horned cattle; and in 179s it followed Ma
poleon iDto Italy, and Piedmont alone paid
for his march, with 3 500 600 head. Faust,
in the Fs1filte dx CllEtipateur, estimates the
loss to France and Belgium, between l713
and 1896, st the enormous total of 10, 600.
0O0 animals. In 1906, when the Cossacks
Of the Don mustered on the Vistuls, their
bullocks brought the pestilence again, and
Schwarl zsnberg's invasion of r snce, at
the hesd Of the allied forces, in 1873, i'm
ported it Wherever, indeed, war has 4
broken down the barriers of sanitary meas.
ures, the plague, if existing inspha East,
has forced its wayi and in the Orimean
campaign it thus penetrated to the cattle
pens of the French and English armies.
It is related that in 1745 the same pesti.
lencs crossed the sea in q parcel of distem-
pered hides from Zsaland, which were for.
bidden a sale there, and should have been
buried; but cOyetOus knsve sold them
for leather, and the plague struck the cattle
and spread from Essex all over the king
dom. On that occasion it ragged for twelve
whole years but not till the third year did
The government take up the matter 30 se-
riously as to order that every infected ami
nal should be instantly destroyed, and in !
his way alone 80, 600 head were killed and
paid for, while a. least 16o, 900 died of the
nAiady. -----.o t,.,Es..s.t
In l747, 40 600 perishsd in Nottingham.
hire and bsicestefshire, Snd &C, 600 in
Cheshire, within six months, Delafond ID
mputes the loss Of stock by that vista
ion in Europe st 100000. 5.ai5. ls L
EXTENT OF THE PRESENT EPIDKMIC.
Last year this disease was raging at the
anne time in Europe, at the tape OF Good
Hope, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria
md South Australia. In Victoria, where
t was very bad, the government took
wholesale measures, and killed the disc ased
Inimals right and left, in addition TO stEia-
,ent Precsutions' --7F9QLgq IHG
Still the disease spread. In South Aus !
ralia the government directly they heard I
he disease was in neighboring colony, 4
ook prompt measures to stop all cattle i
rOssiDg the Victorian borders. Still, like !
he cholera, the disease advanced, and in
! few weeks penetrated hundreds Of miles q
nto the heart OF the colony.
A letter from Alexandria says that
=" the cattle distemper ragged in the coun- !
~ last year. In the course Of. 8 few
months there died IN Egypt eight hundred !
thousand oxen and ss many sheep, goats,
.Amels, sc. Thee fourths of these ami. :
mails were thrown into the Nile, whose
water here is the only drink for, with the d \
reception Of the Fountain Of Moses, there
5 not single spring in Egypt. In the n
month of October last the dogs of Damiet-
q could cross she Nile without Wettlng
heir paws, over the bridge formed by the :
orpses of cattle. Agents of the Isthmus of
uez Company have assured me that they :
1und It impossible to prevent the fellAhs
rom choking their fresh water canal with
cad animals. The Egyptian government h
ot having itself taken measures ia this 4
aspect, their authority was psralyzed, and =
1e fellahs preferred occasionally receiving
few blows to digging hole for the burial
animals that died of disease"
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