SWINE FEVER
OUTBREAK MAY SPREAD * DRASTIC STEPS NECESSARY (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. There* are indications that swine fever may yet spread over a considerable area unless; the steps taken are immediate and drastic. Two more farms in the affected area at Johnsonville showed indications of the disease overnight, making seven in that district. It seems that the outbreak was not reported to the department as soon as it might have been, as a case not generally known at Normandale, Lower Hutt, mentioned for the first time to-day, occurred a week ago. This necessitates a wider area of examination by tile Stock Department than first supposed.
It is stated that the trouble is more likely to spread in rainy, misty weather than in fine weathey, owing to the drainage infecting creeks. So far no pigs have been destroyed by the department, which is awaiting the completion of the trenehes to receive them, which may mean that none will be killed till Thursday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18089, 16 May 1933, Page 11
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163SWINE FEVER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18089, 16 May 1933, Page 11
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