ANTHRAX INCREASING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 919, 12 September 1910, Page 10

ANTHRAX INCREASING.

ENGLAND'S STATISTICS. t : ; !Aq unpleasant, feature of the annual report l of tho Diseases of.Animals De-' | j, partmerit ; : of:/the 'Board. ,ofHAgriculture; (London) \ is ,the .statement -\vhieh lias, V to bo made romtirig;'to anthrax.',- For' . . Beveral obvious reasons New Zealanders. /•; will bo. interested:, in; tlio'■'principal A;'.- points.of the statement:— /' . , . The number of outbreaks of this disease reported Un 1909 was' 1317; and i}/? tho 'nmnber of; animals attacked 1G98. : v--. The, number \of '.reported'outbreay' and -j' ■' animals. attacked; exceeds: .that of: tho' previous year by. 212 and 27iJ, though the figures.only; represent.tho caks.reported, and not;necessarily those coii■'■i\ firmed. 'It is regarded as,highly prob-v'i-able that from' 30 to 40 per cent' of •the deaths reported to bo duoltoan- • . thrax wero not : really attributable to ■v; ; this cause.. Even with' this deduction,' ' ' -probably; numbering 1207.'.outbreak's, - the'' >.; V total is largo. ■.The" assistant-secretary' remarks, that; tlio time appears to liavo' i arrived when somo 'further- effort should jibe made to bring the diseaso under bot- ' .. ter control.;' Experience .has shown that. in ; :theCmajority._of!;cMes; ; a.Vsatisfactory' . definite. diagnosis cannot always , bo.. made immediately,by the".veterinary' r ;"f, inspector [on." ; ne*\r''prdef;' ' relating to anthrax should, it.-' is; ' thought, provide that suspected carr casses should forthwith bo destroyed by fire, or buned. .with- th"e ; usual prccati-' ; tions,' and the place', whero . a carcass 1 \ Jhas lain should be;disinfecte& in precisely.'the saino manner.'as-if a;positiveVdiag-, nosis of anthrax had been arrived at; also that'animals known, to havo been; ' ' in contact with the dead animal should- ..'' V.. be temporarily treated as having : been • exposed to.the risk of.infection of,aii-. thrax. . /-V.';./-'-'