TUBERCULOSIS IN BRITAIN

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6872, 16 July 1909, Page 3

TUBERCULOSIS IN BRITAIN

COSTS A MUNICIPALITY .£3OOO. At the meeting of the Nottingham Town Council recently, the chairman of tho Finance Committee, in submitting tho annual statement, said the most depressing item in tho whole account was that relating to the Corporation Sewage Farm, whore, as tho result of a severe outbreak of tuberculosis, cattle had had to bo slaughtered in great numbers, causing a very serious less indeed. No one, ho added, could have foreseen that, and he was informed on very good authority that one of tho most eminent agriculturists in the country had incurred a loss of .£15,000 from the same pause. The epidemic had not been confined to Nottingham alone, and meaning as it did an increase of a penny rate, the Finance Committee could only look Upon it as a very serious matter. The loss is estimated at not less than .£SOOO. The good citizens of Nottingham will probably appreciate very clearly what bovine tuberculosis means when they have to pay Id in tho dll for it. Tuberculosis is, of course, much more prevalent among dairy cows in Great Britain than in New Zealand, and cows

are of greater value per head, but this gives an indication of the amount of monetary loss involved by the disease getting a big hold on a dairy herd.