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The Danish Government have attempted to grapple with
eliminating the disease by the method based on the value of
Tuberculin as a means of diagnosis, with marked success, and
no doubt our own government will watch with interest the
result of their labours.
I am convinced that this method of detection of disease in
Cows deserves the serious consideration of stockbreeders and
dairymen generally. They would find that the public would
greatly appreciate their efforts to keep their stock free from
this disease, and it would thus be to their own interests to be
able to show a guarantee to their customers as to the health
of their cows.
The Royal Commission recommended that all disease of the
udder of cows should be notified and also that local authorities
should be empowered to take samples of milk and make analysis
from time to time and that all milk received from foreign countries
should be examined at the various ports when it arrives.
I do not think this is a fitting place to comment upon the
fresh-air treatment of the disease, which is being so largely
advocated by scientific men, but what I do wish to bring home
to you all and through you to as large a section of the community
as possible, is the fact that it is possible to a large extent
to prevent the means by which the infection is spread.
The notification of Phthisis is the only logical solution of the
Tubercular problem, but at the present time it is too premature
as public opinion is not sufficiently formed to admit of its being
pressed forward at the present time.