TUBERCULOUS COWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 79, 2 April 1914, Page 4

TUBERCULOUS COWS.

Id AICDSALS DESTROTX©. Df A HERD OF FOKTY-ITvT, HOSPITAL CONTRACT CONDltfolfc (By Telegraph.—'Special to 'Star.") , CHRaSTCHUBCH, thie day?'. Nineteen tuberculous cows in a tojT of forty-nve ie a startling It was found in the herd of the dairy, men supplying tie hospital with and the cows were killed. Tjhe hoipjtjj authorities had stipulated in calling tenders that the herds must be fr* from tubereuloee. ■ '■.?I The matter cropped up at a meetiM of the Social Democratic party, held iv St. ALbans laet night, when a gentj* man, who stated that he was a d»tjj expert, said that -a dairymran, out || whoee forty-five cows nineteen were le ? fected with tuberculoeie, was still cap, plying the hospital with mjDc. T)j£ gentleman expressed the opinion that t| per cent, of the cows in the Chriit, church district were affected by tkt disease. Upon these remarks strong coinmmt was passed from the platform. Mr. H- B. Sorensen (chairman of flu Hospital Committee) said that the p«, eentage of caw 6 with tuberculosis wi« ac stated, but the nineteen bad «|| been killed before the hospital «d supplied. In consideration of t\\ t locs the Board agreed to give the diiry. man more a gallon than kt had entered for,"and the-supply had bin so satisfactory that the contract htf been held for another year. The htjt was now .perfectly clean.

Mr. Soreneen was quite prepared ty admit that other dairymen might ~Jiavi a larger pro-partron of tuberculous ood% than nineteen in forty-five. He Mil that, ac an auctioneer, he had only too good reason to know (ppetkiqg ef a few yeaTS ago), that there were »ny amount of bsdly-mfeeted cow*. P|di|, ment denied the City Council power t* euperviee the milk trade in ejty,