OUTBREAK SPREADING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 5

OUTBREAK SPREADING

(Press Assn.

OVER THQUSAND ANIMALS IN V/ELHNQTON DISTRICT FEAR OF INFECTIQN

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Wellington, Friday. The nurtiber pf pigS the Johnsonville district destroyed or awaiting destruction, through infection •with swihe fever, or contact with af- ; fected animals, total 1147. Six hun- ■ dred have already been destroyed. | The Department has issued an ap- l peal to all" farmers to immediately f notify the appearaneq of any disease | in their stock. The discovery of two dead pigs at tho far point of Point Howard this morning, glves grounds for fear that , the carcases were brought down the j Hutt River, inclicating the possibility j that part of the Hutt Valley was af- I fected. In a complete. investigation ' of the valley, however, the Department discovered no sign of the dis- ; ease. | No trouble was experienced with > the 45 relief workers engaged in dig- } ging trenches for the burial of the pigs, hut in the Department of Agriculture's Vetinarary Laboratory at Wallaceville, there. has been considerable activity during the nast two

vweeks. Before the outbreak of the fever 'was definiteiy proclaimed, a number of pigs had been innoculated with blood of suspeeted animals. Blood samples have been taken from pigs on any farm where the slightest - suspieion of the presence of the disease occurs, and these are to be used to innoculate experimental animals, thus revealing if the fever is present.