The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . FIG. 25. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. BURIAL OF CARCASES OF CATTLE IN DEEP TRENCH. Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [lo Aug., 1912. Bavaria, 100,000. In Germany, in 1890. 800,000 were affected, and in1892 over 4,000,000. Though the mortality is not high in thedisease, the loss from wasting, fever, &c., is enormous; so much so, thata system of slaughter of all affected and in contact animals is carriedon as the cheapest method of checking its ravages (Figs. 25, 26). may be gauged from the cablegrams appearing in the press ofth
The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . FIG. 25. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. BURIAL OF CARCASES OF CATTLE IN DEEP TRENCH. Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [lo Aug., 1912. Bavaria, 100,000. In Germany, in 1890. 800,000 were affected, and in1892 over 4,000,000. Though the mortality is not high in thedisease, the loss from wasting, fever, &c., is enormous; so much so, thata system of slaughter of all affected and in contact animals is carriedon as the cheapest method of checking its ravages (Figs. 25, 26). may be gauged from the cablegrams appearing in the press ofthe last outbreak in Great FIG. 26. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. CARCASES OF CATTLE PILEDWITH WOOD READY FOR BURNING. No lecture on contagious diseases would be complete without some re-ference to tuberculosis, the disease upon which there is mere literaturethan on almost any other subject. It is known as the White Plague,and has been regarded by scientists as the only disease which is capableof exterminating the human race, and this mainly because of its insidious-nature ; for it is pnssibLfnr one tO contract the disease in youth or infancy and to be quite unaware-nf it until later in life—-say upon gaining ma-turitv. when, owing 10some debilitating in-fluence, the protectionaftorded up to that timebv the white corpusclesof the blood is brokendown, and the organismspreads through thesystem, bringing with itthat train of symptomswhich so many are familiar with either throughthe loss of relatives c r^friends from consumption (Figs. 27, 28). The organism responsible for the disease is from toT/i2,oooth of
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