BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS
MARLBOROUGH’S FREEDOM OFFICIAL’S COMMENT | Per Press Association. 1 BLENHEIM, Nov. 25. Tests just completed by the Agricultural Department of all registered dairy herds in the Marlborough Province disclosed that the district is remarkably free from bovine tuberculosis, the percentage being 1 per cent, compared with the Dominion average of between S and 9 per cent. Out of 710 tested only seven gave any reaction and then the disease was found to be very slight and there was no question of danger to human health. , Commenting on the results of the test, Mr. D. A. Gill, Wellington district superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, said that Marlborough had long been known for its freedom from tuberculosis among stock compared with other parts the Dominion. It had been the department's objective as far as possib e to eliminate what signs there weie n the district before the disease obtained a firm hold. A close watch had been kept, particularly on pigs. It was the department's intention to te peat the test in about a year to ensure a continuance of the present happy state of affairs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 26 November 1936, Page 8
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