OUTBREAK OF ANTHRAX

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 949, 23 July 1903, Page 2

OUTBREAK OF ANTHRAX

By Telegraph—Press Association—■ Auckland, last night.

The Government stock inspectors have examined a calf which died on Mr Latimer’s farm at Pukekohe, and declare the case to be anthrax. They state that a cow which recovered suffered only from a cold. They have quarantined Latimer’s farm,

FURTHER PARTICULARS. Per Press Association^ Auckland, last night. The following are the facts of the Pukekohe anthrax case : Five head of cattle died between the 10th and 16th inst. on Mr O. Latimer’s place, at Pukekohe. Mr Latimer came to town on the 16th, and Mr Halstead, veterinary, went up on the 17th. He waß asked by the Auckland Inspector of Stock to take up two slides and bring smears to the office, which Mr Halstead did on the 18th. These were forwarded on the same day to Wellington. Messrs Clayton and Hull (Government Veterinarians) went to Pukekohe on the 18th, and made all enquiries possible. Another heifer died on the 20th. Messrs Clayton and Britain, who visited Pukekohe yesterday, found the dead heifer. A post-mortem examination was made, and the ease was unmistakably anthrax. In all a bull, a heifer, and two pigs have died on Mr Latimer’s property since the 10th -net. The place is now in quarantine.