FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 3 May 1924, Page 8

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

GRAVE SITUATION IN AMERICA

HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED

By Cab) a—-Vress Association —UopvrlgM Received 7.15 p.m.. May 2. SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.

Although the State officials announce that the position in connection with the foot and mouth disease outbreak is encouraging, nevertheless the losses already recorded are causing genuine alarm, not only among stock men, but merchants. Tentative figures indicate that at least 50,000 head of sheep, cattle, hogs and goats have been destroyed within six weeks. Butchers meantime complain that people are not buying meat, owing to the epidemic of hysteria, while the embargoes by the various States have reduced drastically all shipments, including farm produce. The continuation of such embargoes seems probable, and will cause losses of millions of dollars, when the height of the fruit shipping season is reached. Quarantines likewise have seriously reduced the tourist trade with consequent losses to innkeepers and dealers in motor accessories. One oil company attributes 250 per cent, decrease in petrol sales to the exigencies of the outbreak.