MOVE TO CHECK SPREAD OF HYDATIDS

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1937, Page 8

MOVE TO CHECK SPREAD OF HYDATIDS

[Per Pres* Association. Copyright.'] j WELLINGTON, This Day. Provisions for checking the spreadj ■ of hydatids among dogs are contain-1 cd in the Dog Registration Amend-1 ment Bill, which was introduced in! the House of Representatives by Gov- 1 ernor-General’s Message last night, j Under the Bill, local authorities! which deal with the registration of j dogs are charged with the ' duty of keeping sufficient supplies of approved remedies prescribed for treat- i ing the disease in dogs caused by the j parasite technically known as Ochi- j nococcus Granulosus. I When dogs are registered, the j owner is to be supplied with a sufficient quantity of some approved remedy to enable his dog to be treated up to January 1 of the following year. Printed instructions regarding the ! use of the remedy must also be supplied. Local authorities will be entitled Ijo charge additional fees in respect of the supply of remedies. The amount of the fee is to be prescribed by Order-in-Couno.il and the fee will be regarded as an essential part of the registration fee. Approved remedies and printed instructions for their use will also be prescribed by Order-in-Couucil, and arrangements are to be made by the Minister of Internal Affairs to supply the quantities of remedies to local authorities. When the Bill was introduced, the Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, said the measure had been initiated by the Health Department, but would be administered by the Internal Affairs Department. The necessity for some such action recently had been stressed by leading medical authorities and other prominent persons. The Bill was read the first time.

Mr. I-orson's motion should not proceed. In reply to a request by Mr. Fraser, he also ruled that the scope of the debate on the motion must be limited to Auckland and not cover the entire position on the waterfront throughout the whole of the Dominion.