INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS, 1930.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XL, Issue 4, 22 April 1930, Page 283

INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS, 1930.

The eleventh International Veterinary Congress will be held in London from 4th to 9th August next. A permanent committee, with headquarters at The Hague, forms a connecting-link between successive congresses and decides the programmes of meetings. Eminent veterinarians chosen from the principal countries of the world serve on this committee. A preliminary programme received includes the following particulars of the agenda : —General meetings: (1) Foot-and-mouth Disease ; (2) Tuberculosis; (3) Infectious Abortion of Cattle, Sheep, and Swine; (4) Relationship of the Veterinary Surgeon to Animal Husbandry; (5) Veterinary Science in Relation to Public Health, with Special Reference to Production and Distribution of Meat and Milk ; (6) Law governing the Practice of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. Sectional meetings : Section 1, Pathology, Bacteriology, and Epizooliology— (a) Variola in Animals ; (&) Anthrax ; (c) Swinefever ; (d) Rabies ; (e) Distemper ; (/) Blackleg ; (g) Standardization of Biological Products. Section 2, Veterinary Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics (a) Use of Drugs in the Treatment of Diseases caused by Nematode and Trematode Worms ; (6) Milk-fever; (c) Bovine Sterility ; («!) Acute Infectious Mastitis ; (e) Diseases of the New-born. Section 3, Tropical Diseases (a) Theileriases ; (&) Control of Trypanosomiases ; (c) Rinderpest. Section 4, Poultry Diseases(a) Fowlpox and Coryza ; (b) Fowl Typhoid and Bacillary White Diarrhoea ; (c) Fowl-plague ; (d) Treatment of Parasitic Diseases. Section 5, Zootechny and Dietetics(a) Genetics ; (&) Deficiency Diseases ; (c) Scientific Feeding of Animals. Various social functions, and excursions also appear on the programme.