VACCINATING SHEEP in FRANCE.
M. Pasteur’s vaccinations in Franco arc looked upon as a great success. Statistics brought up to Oct. Ist show that the inoculations of splenic fever, according to Pasteur’s method, were performed on 160 flocks, comprising 68,900 sheep, of which 33,596 were vaccinated and 21,938 animals were left uninoculated, so as to judge of the results of the difference of treatment. Before vaccination the losses caused by splenic fever amounted, on the whole of the flocks, to 2986 animals. During vaccination, and until it effects were perfected, 230 sheep out of the whole number of 33,596 perished. During the same period the mortality rose to 366 out of the group of .21,938 which were not vaccinated. When the effects of vaccination were complete in the first group the mortality from splenic fever fell to five. This rate has persisted up to the present time, and the next statistical account will give, it is expected, the same satisfactory results as regards the groups of animals vaccinated and left unvaccinated.
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Patea Mail, 27 January 1882, Page 3
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