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Her Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg, that
the disease was at Utrecht, in Holland, in May last.
This information is given on the authority of Mr.
Schrader, an intelligent veterinary surgeon who is
employed by the Hamburg Government to examine
cattle and sheep shipped for foreign ports; and he
states that in the course of last spring a considerable
number of Hungarian cattle were conveyed from
Vienna into Holland through Germany, and that
the rinderpest had broken out in the neighbourhood
of Vienna, particularly in the village of
Florisdorf, and had also appeared at Utrecht.
Now it is a remarkable fact that nearly all the
early outbreaks of the disease were attributed to
Dutch cattle; and this was the case not only in
London but also in the country. It was 44 Dutch
cattle from the Metropolitan Cattle Market, which
took the plague into Norfolk as early as the 1st of
July. It was 5 Dutch cows from the same market
which infected Lord Granville's farm at Child's
Hill. It was 14 Dutch cattle from London that
carried the disease into Scotland, by way of Kelso;
and so remarkable is this circumstance of Dutch
cattle having been the common agents of infection,
that Professor Simonds is compelled to explain it, by
saying that Dutch cattle are more liable to the
disease, after exposure to contagion, than other
beasts; but there is no proof of this; nor is it
likely that our farmers would call all foreign cattle
by the name of Dutch cattle. The fair inference