SWINE FEVER.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18950, 20 May 1933, Page 6

SWINE FEVER.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE. INFECTED AREA PROCLAIMED. MEASURES TO COMBAT DISEASE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. Notices are gazetted to-day declaring the Counties of Hutt and Makara, Including the City of Wellington, the boroughs of Petone, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt and Eastbourne, and the town district of Johnsonville, to be an infected area within the meaning of the Stock Act regulations, and prohibiting the removal from those areas of any swine, or any fodder or fittings pertaining to swine, without the permission, of the Inspector. The notices also prescribe the measures to be taken by owners and ’occupiers of land within the infected areas for the purpose of control and eradication of the disease.

The Department of Agrioulture explains that the measure gives power for the Department to exercise full control not only in areas where swine fever Is now known to exist but also in adjacent areas where there is a risk of its spreading. The inclusion in the infected area ■o’f the whole of the Makara and Hutt Counties does not imply that the disease exists throughout them. So far as it Is known It is still limited to the Johnsonville district, except in one case at Western Hutt, where all the pigs on a farm have been destroyed.

Systematic Inspection of the farms Is still being -carried out. The discovery -of two dead pigs at Point Howard Is disquieting, as examination at the Wallaeeville Laboratory has shown that one was affected with •swine fever. Consequently, the who'e of the Hutt Valley Is again being thoroughly combed out. The department points out that it is obligatory for owners to report cases of disease.