Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-19
.tHHE DANGER
ANTHRAX SPREAD,
SAYS N '.I G. D
Territorial Veterinarian Feels
Assured Epidemic Will Be
Quickly Checked =

IN No nuhBCI lHC dhI.ii
outbreak on Kauai spreading through
thet island or being communicated e
ether islands in the territory This is
the opinion today of DR.. Victor A. Nor
! gard. territorial l. veterinarian, who
was asked by the Star-Builetin for a
report on the epidemic in the Garden
| Island
| There is no likelihood of the out
break spreading" said DR.. Norgaard
| this morning. The infected herds are
| pastured in a we'll surrounded valley
! opening out on the sea; all preventive
measures. including quarantine, have
/ been taken, the dead cattle are being
cremated and enough Y3ccine to inocu
late all cattle infected or exposed "a
! the disease should arrive very short
ly and | will at once take It to
Kauai and vaccinate all the cattle suf
| feriRg from or endangered by the ~di
sease.'
The only ranch to suffer from the
epidemic is the Prince Vile plantation
at Hanalei, DR.. Norgaard says. There
are no cattle ranches adjoining the in
fected pastures. Deaths OF cattle from:
| the disease to date have been about
20 head The disease is such that no
cattle i'll from it can be shipped. They
| would die before reaching their deS-
| tination. --. -.
VIII vseeinate BY wholesale
- VIII Paecinate about 1000 head OF
eattle in the auaraptined district,
hSaii glE SsfgaaTd this morning. :
ordered enough vaccine Monday by
tcabae to San Francisco to fnoculats
from roo TO; 2001 head and It should
arrive seonfss @E.5Islt - r.
u DR.. "a "a. Glsizyer, deputy terrific
rial veterinarian FOR Kauai, IS at the
lPrineeEiile ranch in the Hanalei dis
tfict, taking every preeaution and en-
forcing the quarantine absolutely He
VIII remains on duty there until the
epidemic has ebeens checked and all
Idangerfis past atit" ajs1lat4s ST.
Bone Meal u. Blamed hsrr 4oft
Y AS to tile cause of the epidemic, the
territorial veterinarian believes It due
largely to bone meal imported from
California, where there has been some
trouble from anthrax recently In
my annual report ! warned stock
growers not to feed anything but Ha.
waiian-made bone meal" he said. The
meaf Is red With salt. at the salt ticks
In cases where pastures are deficient
In Iron salts. The veterinarian warn.
ed cattle men OF the territory to insist
on getting only bone meal manufac!
|tlred, in The islands :
s, The entire Hanaiei district is under
quarantine today and one of the i'm.
portant things to be done after the
epidemic is checked will be ito do
away with Infection of the soil which
has resulted from skinning the cattle
dead from the disease.
b Before DR.. Norgaard reached Kauai
the cattle men had been skinning the
dead cattle and burying their carcass.
es, where the proper method to have
followed should have been complete
cremation OF the cattle. by pouring
oil on the bodies and burning them to
ashes. THAT is the only safe way to
prevent further infection, because II
the soil once gets infected the infec.
ton continues TO stay in the ground
and grow" says DR.. Norgaard.a
The territorial veterinarian desires
to- assure stockrnRn of the territory
that there is no possibility of. the di.
sease being brought here now and that
with all possible precautions being
taken the epidemic should be stamped
out soon after the.yaccine arrives from
the mainland and incubation is given
sick cattle and those exposed to in.
fectfOn - ~