Cattle Plague in China
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causes great havoc amongst cattle, being in great part disseminated in cotton cake and other feeding materials obtained from the interior. On the present occasion, cattle plague was introduced in September last into Shanghai from Tanyang on the Grand Canal in three herds of cattle imported by the German military authorities. The first herd consisted of 100 cattle, of which twelve infected animals were shot and cremated, and the remaining 88 were slaughtered for food before they could develop the disease. The second herd consisted of 150 cattle of which 5G were cremated, 32 slaughtered for food, and those remaining were immunised with gall by Dr. ITaedicke and Schlie of the German Veterinary Service, the former of whom
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