How Pleuro-pneumonia may be
In our last issue we made some remarks on how pleuro-pneumonia may be spread. Since then we have further enquired into the matter, and learn, on the most reliable authority, that there is nothing, as matters at present stand, to prevent cattle on the run from carrying the disease from the infected places to all parts of the district, now, so far as is known, clean. The infected cattle on the Swamp Company's ground are separated only by a wire fence from the cattle oa the run outside, and between these there is an unbroken chain of communication to all parts of the district. The matter is a very serious one, and requires both immediate and careful consideration for the remedy is beset with difficulties. It has, we understand, already arrested the attention of the Cattle Board, and we learn from one of their officers that on careful enquiry he has ascertained that in the infected district recently proclaimed there cannot be less than from 1200 to 1400 head of cattle at large upon the run. If these cattle were prohibited from being at large the owners must either sell them or keep them on their own fenced land. They could, of course, only be sold within the district, and there woald be literally no sale for them. On the other hand to keep them on enclosed land would mean great expense, or starvation for many of them. Still the fact stares us in the face that, left as they are, they form an unbroken line of communication for the spread of the disease throughout the distriot. Arbitrary enactments would be most undesirable, yet, on the other hand, it is neither right nor just that the property of those who have gone to the expense of enclosing and cultivating their lands should be endangered, and the general safety of the cattle of the district imperilled. Is there no middle course that could be pursued ? Might it not be possible that cattle on the run should be herded, and kept from approaching too closely to infected places 't
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Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1214, 10 April 1880, Page 2
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351How Pleuro-pneumonia may be Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1214, 10 April 1880, Page 2
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