NEW HEALTH PLAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 7

NEW HEALTH PLAN

—O — h disease_free cattle BRITISH MINISTRY'S SUCCESS Britain is planning a » r eat health <lrive to rid the country of tuber, - culosis in cattle. According to Sir Frederick Hobday, in his book, "".Fifty Years a Veterinary Surgeon'' there are 1,000,000 tubercular cattle , in England to.dav —an average of 30 to 40 per cent of the dairy cows be. ing diseased. This new plan, how. A? ever, should bring about a decided improvement in, the position. The first attested herd areas—huge "re. . serves" of tuberculosis.free cattle - wil] be formed during 1939, so great r. are the advances being made in some " parts of the country in the national campaign against cattle diseases launched only a few months ago by ( "the Ministry of Agriculture. PROGRESS OF SCHEME. , After a review of the progress cf " the attested herds scheme and an examination of the preliminary resuits -of the national tuberculin.test survey, the Ministry's Animal Health Department is satisfied that if the present rate of cleaning up herds is f maintained, the formation of at least two disease.free areas may be at. tempted within a few months.. When the attested herd areas are tens /of thousands of cattle will be regarded as a single attested herd. Boundaries will be fixed so as to make the areas, like the herds with. "In them, as far as possible self-eon. tained. All the regulations which now apply to a single herd will then apply also to the whole of the con~ trolled area.