THE DISEASE OF ANTHRAX

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 2

THE DISEASE OF ANTHRAX

HOW IT WAS STAMPED OUT OF NEW ZEALAND. [Pee Pbsbi Ajmooiation.] Wellington, January 6. The suggestion in the cable message yesterday that the death of the butcher at Mitcham, England, was due to handling New Zealand rabbits is ridiculed by the Department of Agriculture here. The last case of anthrax known in New Zealand was in 1906. In 1905 there were several out. breaks, chiefly in the North Island. The cause was traced to the importation of unsterilised bone manures from foreign countries. The Government accordingly issued regulations absolutely prohibiting the importation of animal manures from all foreign countries except from Australia and India, at the main ports. In each of these places an inspector was appointed, with very large powers, to superintend the sterilisation of all animal manures prior to exportation to New Zealand. Since then no animal manure of any description has been admitted into New Zealand unless covered by a certificate that all regulations have been faithfully compiled with, signed by the inspector and endorsed by .the proprietor of the licensed works.