Notable Success of

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 232, 2 October 1935, Page 5

Notable Success of

Spahlinger Vaccine

PRESS DEMANDS BRITISH RECOGNITION

“VESTED PREJUDICE AND BLIND OBSTRUCTION”

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 1.

A report on experiments made on calves with the Spahlinger vaccine has been mado by officers of the Ulster Government. The report states that vaccine highly immunised vaccinated calves to a lethal dose of tubercle bacilli and conferred equal immunity to intense natural infection for approximately two years. The experiments will be continued to discover the minimum dose sufficient to confer immunity.

Following the Spahlinger experiment the Daily Telegraph demands the adoption hy Britain of the use of the vaccine, recalling that a committee of experts last year pointed out that the milking life of a British cow was only half wliat it should he in reality, causing an annual loss of £3,000,000, while 40 per cent, of the dairy cows were badly infected with tuberculosis and over 5 per cent, of the milk samples from individual herds showed dangerous hovinc tuberculosis and caused 2500 deaths of human beings and much illness yearly. The British Medical Association in 1926 demanded proof of Spalilinger’s vaccine with immunised animals. This has now been provided and Major Elliot and Sir Kingsley Wood must take up the matter or they will he remembered as the champions of vested prejudice and blind obstructionists resisting one of the most salutory discoveries. The injections in the calves consisted of a hundred million bacilli.