FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 19

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.

THEORY OF CAMP INFECTION. DISCUSSION BY FARMERS. [ikom our. own correspondent.]' LONDON. March 19. The suggestion that the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at Catterick Camp was the result of the police not carrying ou.t their duty of enforcing the order of tho Ministry of Agriculture, making it obligatory lor foreign meat to bo boiled before use for pig feeding, was made at a meeting at York of the North Riding executive ol the National Farmers Union.

Mr Jonah IJulmsr said that the theory that the disease occurred through foreign potatoes used at the camp having been disproved, he thought some attention should bo given to the rcfusi of foreign moat. "We have been told many times," he said, "'.hat genua can lurk even in the marrow of the bones. This refuse goes straight to the large feeders of pigs and is consumed often, I should say, with out being boiled or sterilised. There is, therefore, great likelihood of the disease being spread in this way It is a very serious matter No other country has such a wealth of stock in its pedigree herds, and we have (his menace with us all the time." Mr Harold Thompson said he did not think there was tho .slightest doubt that infection occurred through refuse from foreign meat. Mr. Bannister said that all they desired was to "buck up" the police to prosecute anybody who did- not treat refuse .from any institution.