MR. H. A. BRUCEstated that he had received the following letter relative to what had been supposed to be the Rinderpest in the Isle of Man:—
Government House, Isle of Man, June 6. "Sir,—Since my last report I have had opportunities of examining several cases of the disease at present prevailing among cattle in the Isle of Man, and presumed to be cattle plague. The post-mortem appearances in every case were remarkably like, but the symptoms during life essentially different from those observed in cases of rinderpest. In localities where the malady first appeared the animals which were in contact with the diseased ones have given no evidence of being infected, and I have to-day examined a case of the disease which occurred in a cow, pastured in an isolated situation upon the top of a mountain, where communication of disease by contagion is extremely improbable. Some animals are still under observation, but the evidence which has been obtained up to the present justifies the conclusion that the affection from which the cattle in the island are suffering is not rinderpest, but a disease depending entirely upon local causes. "I have, &c., G.J. BROWN.