WAR ON HYDATIDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1984, 14 February 1914, Page 5

WAR ON HYDATIDS.

. .. . 6. , OF 'JHfiP'mSBASJS; IN , r : NEW ZEALAND. 1 ' 1 "/ . (By' Teloffraph.—Pr«s3 Association.) ' ■ V Auckland,- February 13. : ; In the course of a paper on "hydatid disease" Dr. L.'E. Baniott, of Dunedin, drew.' attention to tlie yearly loss, iu ; actual money, resulting through tho prevalence of the complaint, and emphasised the necessity for a publicity campaign by the Government, so that tanners and others, could be fully'apprised of. iho importance , of. measures for checking its spread/ It. was advocated , that prominent placards should be, placed at, railway stations,' in the'schools, and other place's of public assemblage, issuing a warning against the feeding of dogs on raw meat,, on similar lines 'to what had been done in the Argentine. It was stated that tho disease was more prevalent in the South Island than in .the North Island, and an estimate was . submitted that if the diseaso was reduced b.v'half,; the annual saving in loss in sheep_ alone would be £128,500. A computation made placed the loss on rejected meat because of hydatids dJring tho past' ten years at a value of £200,000. In the . course of the ensuing discus- . sion, in which several doctors took part, Dr. Stapley declared that a great deal of the diseaso was to be found in . abattoirs in New Zealand, and that . dogs should bo vigilantly ' kept away from such premises to avoid the spread $>f hydatids by their feeding on the offal. . ■ '