SWINE FEVER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 537, 22 May 1933, Page 5

SWINE FEVER

infected areas gazetted as protection measure Wellington, Saturday. Notices are gazetted to-clay de"claring the Counties of Hutt and Makara, including the City of Wellington, the borough of Petone, Lower Hutt, .Upper Hutt and Eastbourne and the town distriet of Johnsonville, to be an infected area within the meaning of the Stock Act regulations, and prohibiting the removal from those areas of any swine, or any fodder or fittings pertaining to swine, without the permission of the inspector. The notices also prescribe the measures to be taken by owners and occupiers of land within the infected areas for the purpose of control and eradication of the dise-ase. The Department of Agriculture explains that the measure gives power for the Department to exereise full control not only in areas where swine f ever is now known to exist hut also in adjacent areas where there is a risk of its spreading. The inclusion in the infeeted area "of the whole of the Makara and Hutt Counties does not imply that. the disease exists throughont them. So far as it is known it is still limited to the Johnsonville distriet, except in one case at Western Hutt, where all the pigs on a farm have been destroyed. Systematic inspection of the farms is still being carried out. The. discovery of two dead pigs at Ppint Howard is disquieting, as examination at the Wallaceville Lahoratory has shown that one was affeeted with swine fever. Consequently, the whole of the Hutt Valley is again being thoroughly comhed ont. The department points ont that it is obligatory for owners to report cases of disease.