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The great mortality from this disease has hitherto been among

cows kept in London, and it is necessary to mention that there seems little chance of its infecting the milk. One of the first symptoms of its appearance is the total loss of the supply of milk, and inquiries are now being made by scientific men as to the possibility of milk being tainted. It is believed there is none, and the disease cannot be communicated to human beings. Should it spread northwards, however, the losses will be frightful, more especially as it is not yet clear that it cannot be communi- cated to horses, which are, however, more easily isolated. We trust the severity of the plague in London will ultimately lead to the legislative suppression both of intramural dairies and intra- mural slaughter-houses.

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