TUBERCULIN TEST OF COWS
NATIONAL MEASURES uItGED
(press association telegram.)
MASTERTON, August 13. “Pulmonary tuberculosis still kills more people in New Zealand than the motor-car,” said Mr T. A. Russell, Masterton borough sanitary inspector, In referring to the need for national measures for the tuberculin testing of cows. “Very little notice is taken of deaths from tuberculosis,” he added, “though they total about 10 every week.”
About 9 per cent, of the cows in New Zealand were affected. During 1933 there were 742 cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis treated in New Zealand hospitals, and half of such cases, he said, were due to bovine bacillus. Tuberculosis could be eliminated from our herds, and a beginning could at least be made with herds supplying towns. The tuberculin test was sensitive and reliable and should be compulsory for all herds supplying milk to towns. It was a national matter of the greatest importance to the health of the community.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21861, 14 August 1936, Page 6
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