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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 303, 1 September 1875, Page 2

Some new cases of deaths, due to the eating of pork infected with “ trichinse,’’ should be the means of directing public attention once more to the horrible disease in swine, called “ trichinosis;” and to the fact that, when once the parasite attacks a human being the result is prolonged suffering, and, in many cases, death. The worm existing in the pork literally bores its way out of the stomach and into the muscles of the body, and becomes, in this way, a “ bore ’’ of the worst description. The pig, it is well known, is an animal that is not at all dainty in its tastes, and will lunch off a dead body, or even off one of its own deceased relatives, with infinite “ gusto," even if the dear deceased be in the form of carrion. This is a point worthy of consideration by those persons who incline to the belief that dead chickens, putrid filth, or any other garbage about a pl ace is the accustomed, and legitimate food for the pig, as it has been found that swine become infected with trichinse by indulging too fraely in these delicacies. Porkers fed on the refuse of slaughter-houses come under the same category ; and no person having any due regard for his intestinal interests will indulge in feasting on such unclean food, which, in this case, is rendered not only dangerous, but absolutely poisonous.—Napier Telegraph,