TRACING TUBERCULOSIS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3720, 18 October 1906, Page 4

TRACING TUBERCULOSIS.

Nodical Man says It Starts With Diseased Grass. Dr Pickett Turner, of Ballam, says that he has solved the problem of tuberculosis. He considers that ii is derived primarily from cattle, and they get it by eating diseased grass. He made this announcement at a conference of medical officers of health and sanitation convened by the Agricultural and Industrial Society, of which he was the chairman, in the city. Dr. Turner said that it was proposed to supply London with nontuberculous meat, and so endeavour to reduce the tuberculosis deathrate. The Jewish community, with their particular method of slaughter, did not eat tuberculous cattle, for cattle ever so slightly affected | were rejected at once. The deathrate to the extent of 12% per cent, of all diseases was due to tuberculosis, while among the Jewish community the tuberculosis deathrate was only 4 per cent., Dr Turner continued. The Jews’ method ot slaughter was entirely different trom that adopted by the authorities of this country. The Jews did not use the pole-axe; they simply cut the throat of the animals and let them bleed to death. By their method the Jews extracted practically all the blood in the carcase, and as all the disease germs were in the blood it naturally followed that the less blood there was the fewer disease germs.