FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 12

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.

THEORY OF CAMP INFECTION. (Fbosi Oim Own Correspondent.) ' LONDON, March 19. The suggestion that the recent outbreak of 'foot-and-moutii disease at Catterick Camp was the result of the police not carrying out their duty of enforcing the order of Ministry of Agriculture, making it obligatory for foreign meat to be boiled before use fo r pig feeding, was made at a meeting at York of the North Riding executive of the National Farmers’ Union. Mr Jonah Bulmer said that the theory that the disease occurred through foreign potatoes used at the camn having been exploded, he thought some' attention should be given to the refuse' of foreign meat. . "We have been told many times," he said, “that germs can’lurk even in the marrow of the bones. This refuse goes straight to the large feeders of pigs, and is consumed often, 1 should say, without being boiled, pr 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 this menace with ue all the time.” . ‘Mr Harold Thompson said he did not think there was the 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 wjho, did not treat refuse from any institution.