THE HOSPITAL MILK SUPPLY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 11

THE HOSPITAL MILK SUPPLY.

NOT TAINTED, At the meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday reference was made to a report which appeared in that morning's Dominion concerning the milk supplied to the public hospital. The report contained the following paragraph: The disooverv has been made during the past few days that a number of the milking cows from which supplies are drawn for use at'the Wellington Hospital wore suffering from tubercu-. losis, and some ten animals which reacted when the tuberculin. test was applied have been condemned and ■ slaughtered. In each case, however, the infection is reported to have Been very slight, and it is not considered -possible that any one of the cows condemned had beon yielding milk even the least bit tainted. The medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr. Hardwicke Smith, stated that while some of the cows had reacted to the tuberculin test, other tests had proved that the milk was not tainted ac all. Injections had been made to guinfea pigs, . whioh was the finest of tests, and the animals had not teen affected. "We should ben thankful," ho added, "that the Department is taking such an interest in the matter of the milk supplied to the hospital, and thankful that the milk is as' good 'as it -is." Dr.-Hardwicke-Smiilh, mentioned to the .press afterwards that the cows supplying tho Otaki Sanatorium had been tested, and that the milk was not tainted.