TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6487, 16 May 1899, Page 1

TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.

.» . <" DANGER 'TO MILE CONSUMERS. "MR GILRTJTH VINDICATED. [Prom Our Correspondent.} WELLINGTON, May 15. • Dr'Kington Fyffe, bacteriologist to the Wellington Hospital, comes to the rescue • of Mr Gilruth, Chief Government Yeterin- • arian, * who has been -designated by the > local ! Press an , " alarmist " because he > stated publicly at a recent meeting of ' .Wellington Borough iTepresentafrives that he 'had found tubeveulosis and cancer, in cows from wJiich milk-^was supplied to consumersi in the> city.' 'S>r FyfEe quotes the following case in potnfc;^" Not long ago I ■ saw in consultatioa : «ii child suffering from tuberculosis/. Tie history was ; as follows:^-^A sister . Iwid. died ■ 'of ■ tiiafc disease, arid the ,<ehild' in question hadaickened. ~*A .third child was suffering, from emaciation, general malaria and diarrhoea; etc. ' These children were, fed upon '4in'lk, and u^aa milk almost exclusively. The fourth child, a boy, would not touch milk, and he was qiiite unaffect^d'by any disease, being strong and healthy. On ■• giving the children only boiledomilK the syrpptoms disappeared." He adds that Mr Gilruth has also shown him cases arid seefcions taken from cancerous tumors in oows near Wellington, and he declares that the Government veterinarian has done excellent service in insisting upon the infaotiyity of milk from tuberculous cows.