THE TOLL OF TUBERCULOSIS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 8

THE TOLL OF TUBERCULOSIS.

NEARLY . .£IO,OOO LAST YEAR,

There are■ evidences, that ;tho absolute necessity of pasteurising by-products of milk is to receive considerable'attention before next dairying season. The great success of tho experiments made by Hie Department of Agriculture in feeding pigs on pasteurised'skim-milk and demonstrating the good results therefrom, is rc-port«l to have induced a number of factory directors to advocate the■' installation of adequate pasteurisers, at their factories. Only a small percentage of the. I'actories in tho Dominions pasteurise.at present, and a still smaller percentage have adequate means of-doing the work. In some cases the arrangements made were not on a scale sufficient to . heat; the liquid to the necessary tempcrahireV Certain factories in order to provide "the necessary heat'will have to go to'- more ' expense than might. appear to bo profitable." said a well-known expert yesterday, "but if they only knew the loss to the country, of which they are units,-the?' would see thd registered is altogether dispror/offi6n'a(o"'fb"fhe" Benefit derived. Any outlay wo.uM, pay:;a, htrndred fold. I believe a good many factories will make provision during the coming off-season to pasteurise when tho factories reopen next August and thenceforward."

As regards the loss mentioned above, a most reliable estimate which hos been made deb.its..tjiber.culosis,..vitb,-ovo,r £38,000 for last year alone. -The figures refer to. the total-losses on pigs and cuttle. That was the direct lo=s, and in addition there is the indirect loss by way of depreciation in constitution, the falling T off. of the milk-yielding cap.pity of undetected, cows, .and 'the weakened constitutions' of their "progeny/ ' *