VACCINATION OF LIVE

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1669, 17 March 1883, Page 4

VACCINATION OF LIVE

The wonderful results achieved' by M. Pasteur's discovery for inoculating live std"6K hs tt preveutativc against disease,, 1 hajre been embodied in a paper road by him at tho last meeting of the Academic dqj'Sciences. Tim Department of the Eiiro-et-Loire is one in which splenetic fevtor haa' always been very pievalcnt, and after the conclusive results of the experiments which were made eighteen mouths ago near Paris, the farmers of thoßpauce determined to try M. Pasteur's lemedy. .In tlio course of the past. year nearly eighty thousand sheep, between four and live thousand head of cattle, and live hundred horses have been vaccinated, with what good effects may be gathered from tho following state ment : — The number of sheep vaccinated within the year has been 70,302. For the last ten years the average annual loss from liver-iot has been 7321), or 9 per cent. Since the introduction of vaccination this loss has bctn reduced to S IS, or •Go per cent. Among the flocks which have been only p»ntially vaccinated there were '2308 sheep vaccinated and Hi">fl not. and the loss among these was only eight for the 230S sheep vaccinated while it was bixty among the 1039 unvaceinated sheep. It is worthy of note that thct>c sheep wero brought from different parts of the department, and that the vaccinated and unvaceinated ones were all treated in the same way. The veterinarians of the Eure-et-Loire have vaccinated during the year 4562 head of cattle and the'ro have been only eleven deaths, th« rate of mortality being thus reduced from 7*03 per cent., at which they stood a year ago, to 0"24 per cent. Horses | were not vaccinated to so general an extent ns cattle and sheep, but out of the 524 subjected to it only three died. These results, snperadded to many others, seem to provo beyond all doubt the efficacy of M. Pasteur's reniai kable discovery.