SWINE FEVER

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 6

SWINE FEVER

DEPARTMENT PROCLAIMS AREA

TO PREVENT DISEASE SPREADING

(Per. Press Association Copyrvjht.)

WELLINGTON, May 20

C. Notices were gazetted to-day declaring the- counties of Hutt and Makara": including the city of Wellington and the,.boro, ughs of Petone, Lower Hutt, Upper Mutt, Eastbourne and the town district of Johnsonville, to be an infected area within the meaning of the Stock Act regulations, and prohibiting the removal from those aieas of any swine or any fodder or fittings pertaining, to swine, without the permission 0 f the inspector; also prescribing measures to be taken by the owneis and occupiers of land within the infected; area for the purpose of the control and eradication of the disease. • The De par linen t of Agriculture cxp'ains that the measures gives power for the department to ..exorcise lull control, not only in the areas,' where swine fever is now known to exist, hut also in the adjacent areas, where there is the risk of its spreading. The inclusion in the infected area of the whoF of Makara and Hutt Counties does not imply that the disease exists, throughout them. So.far as is known, it is still limited t Q the Jolmsonvil.e district, except one case at western Hutt,' where all the pigs on one farm have been destroyed.-: • \ systematic iiWjteotion of farms is. still being earried>iixpt.o.o am* . - ■" -The discovery o&« twewdead.pigs at Pointi Howard is diequietemn*,: as,an examination at Wallacevil’.e Laboratory has shown that one was affected with ine fever.- Consequently, tile whole Hutt Valley has again been thoroughly combed out. Th«“ Department points out that it is obligatory for owners to report eases of disease.