MILK AND TUBERCULOSIS
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1 »■ • • 1,111 Importance of Pure Supply TESTING OF COWS ADVOCATED
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WELLINGTON, Last Night. Interesting comments on tuberculosis as it aiiects humans and animals were made by Dr. T. D. Stout when addressing the NeW Zealand branch of &e Veterinafy' Assoeiation to-day. Dr. Btout, who is pfesideht Of the New Zealand branch of the Blitish Medical Assoeiation, referred to the itnportant part a pure ntilk supply played in main-\ taiiiing the health of the commuhity, and in this coUneCtion he said that the mixing of the milk of many cows and many herds lessened the iisk ahd that where milk was paSteurised as Well as mixed tlie risk must be ndhOxistent. He also felt that all cows from which milk was utilised for human cohsumptioh should be periodically subjeeted to the tuberculin test. If thife were carried out, he felt, bovine tuberculosis could be eliminated in New Zealand and human tuberculosis could be much ameliorated. He mentioned also that there Were other diseases spread by ineans of milk and from which pasteurisation aeted as a preventive.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 15
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