CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 220, 12 November 1900, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by oar correspondents.] X TIMELY CAUTION. TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—l should like, through your p&per, to call the attention of the inhabitants of New Plymouth to the driving, almost daily, through tho town and suburbs of diseased cattle condemned by the Staek Inspector. It is quite right these cattle should be killed. But, shall we not have the disehse spread broadcast in our midst? Tha human system is liable to the same diseases as the animal, and, according to medical testimony, these diseases are spread through inhaling the germs. Now these cattle, as they travel along the roads, are continually dropping saliva, etc., and, wirt it, the germs of the disease for which they are condemned, and these germs are blown about by every puff of wind, into our homes, or into our gardens, where, maybe, there are playing, little children, who inhale thes6 germs, and, if they are out of sorts, are very likely to contract these diseases, The driving of these cattle is, I think, forcing unnecessary trouble into our midst, for the remedy lies with the Stock Inspector, who has power to have these cattle killed where he finds them. We all have to pay our share towards stamping these diseases out of our cattle. Then why not have it done in a proper manner ? Shall we sit idly by and wait for disease to be delivered at our very door? Should not our authorities, or health officer, or whoever has the looking after these things, be acquainted with the fact, or cannot the\ police interfere? for it is certainly cruelty to animals to drive some of these poor beasts from ten to thirty miles before being killed. Trusting someone else will take up this matter.—l am, etc., Taxpayer, New Plymouth, Nov. 9th, 1900.