TUBERCULOSIS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 118, 24 June 1914, Page 11

TUBERCULOSIS.

OH THE DECREASE. Speaking at the. Palmerston Winter. Show : -Mt C. V J.'Reakes, Chief Veterinarianj' said\th£t tuberculosis in stock-rr-the old: enemy,.which had given them so'much trouble in the past—was now on the down grade.,. It had been a. very eostly disease to . the country, and it ■wafi pleasing to"'state that its increase lad been ehecked! He was quite, sure, that, if the co-operation between farmers'and the Department's officers kept on extending, it wohld tend to a still further decrease. The disease was also ©b the down grade in pigs. Last year, Mr Beakes went on say, tuberenlosis showed a decrease of three. per cent, oia the' year before, three per cent, on the year before that, and One and a half per cent, this year: It was, perhaps, 1 too to expect a three per cen]t. deeredse every year. He attributed t£e, decrease very largely to the farmers themselves, and asked them to co-oper-ite.TVith the Department in checking it.