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That funds be placed at the disposal of the Board of
Agriculture, &c., for the preparation of commercial tuberculin,
and that the stockowners be encouraged to test their animals by
the offer of a gratuitous supply of tuberculin and the gratuitous
services of a veterinary surgeon on certain conditions.
That the Board of Agriculture, &c., circulate amongst
agricultural and other societies, instructions as to the proper
use of the tuberculin test.
The foregoing briefly deals with preventive measures to
be adopted to prevent the spread of the disease by ingestion; the
only effectual method of dealing with the question of infection is
to have a complete knowledge of the sources of infection and this
can alone be done by notification. During the year the subject
has been under the serious consideration of the Vestry and with a
view to some immediate action being taken to combat the disease,
a circular containing the . following precautions against
Tuberculosis or Consumption was delivered to every house in
the Parish endorsed by an urgent request that it might not be
destroyed, but placed in such a position as to be readily referred
to:—
"The Vestry as the Sanitary Authority for the Parish, and
as advised by the Medical Officer of Health, desire to direct
attention to the importance of adopting measures to prevent the
spread of Tuberculosis, which is also known as consumption of
the lungs or bowels and also as water on the Brain, Scrofula, &c.
" The disease is caused by a special germ or microbe which
may be taken into the system in many ways. Amongst others
it is generally contracted in otherwise healthy persons by inhalation
of the dust containing the germ or microbe of the disease
derived from the dried expectoration or phlegm of persons
suffering from consumption.