Report of the Agricultural Sub-Committee upon the tuberculin experiments carried out at the Lancaster County Council Farm, from September 1895 to March 1899 / the County Council for the County Palatine of Lancaster, Technical Instruction Committee.

  • Lancashire (England). County Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: Report of the Agricultural Sub-Committee upon the tuberculin experiments carried out at the Lancaster County Council Farm, from September 1895 to March 1899 / the County Council for the County Palatine of Lancaster, Technical Instruction Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF LANCASTER. TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE. REPORT of the Agricultural Sub-Committee upon the Tuberculin Experiments carried out at the Lancashire County Council Farm, from Septem¬ ber, 1895, to March, 1899. In August, 1895, Mr. H. S. Daine, the Lecturer on Agriculture to the Lancashire County Council, called the attention of the Farm Sub-Committee to the great prevalence of Tuberculosis amongst the Dairy Cattle of Lancashire, and, after the question as to the best means to be adopted for dealing with the disease had been fully discussed, it was decided, as a first step, to ascertain the number of cattle affected amongst the Dairy Herd at the County Council Farm, by the application of the Tuberculin Test as recommended by Professor Koch, of Berlin. As the reliability of the test was then regarded as an open question, a small Sub-Committee was appointed in August, 1895, to conduct a Preliminary Experiment for the purpose of testing the value of “ Tuberculin.” The carrying out of the test was placed in the hands of Mr. T. F. Hutchinson, M.R.C.V.S., of Leyland, who then held and is still holding the post of Veterinary Surgeon to the Committee, the Farm Bailiff acting under his instructions. Thirteen Cows, including some of the best milkers, and the pure Shorthorn Bull, were selected as fair types of the herd, and it may be as well to say here that the herd was made up of well-bred