Day 103 - 14 Mar 95 - Page 16
1 A. An overall.
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3 Q. -- water intake?
4 A. Yes.
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6 MS. STEEL: So when you get some deaths from Gumboro you presume
7 that more are going to die?
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. Do you then go around the sheds checking for soiled vent
11 feathers and the other things that are listed there?
12 A. No, we do not.
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14 Q. You do not? Why is that?
15 A. Well, I cannot see why you should want to do that.
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17 Q. To prevent the birds suffering, the ones that are going to
18 die?
19 A. But there is no treatment for the disease.
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21 Q. So you just leave them to die on their own?
22 A. They do, yes.
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24 Q. You could cull them, could you not?
25 A. But you cannot always see the ones that are going to
26 die because, as I have said, they die very, very quickly.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You mean some get the disease, you might spot
29 the disease but then they might recover?
30 A. Absolutely.
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32 MR. MORRIS: We are going to go off at a tangent, well, a
33 relevant tangent for a while. Can we get the French
34 documents? I think they are pink volume VIII, section B.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I do not believe they are, but I may be
37 wrong. I thought we put them behind Dr. Pattison's
38 statement which is in yellow IX. I may be up a gum
39 tree -- no, Mr. Morris is quite right.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I seem to remember looking at them.
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43 MR. RAMPTON: 8B, my Lord, it is.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Turn to tab 8B, please, Dr. Pattison.
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47 MR. MORRIS: The first one to look at is the McDonald's weekly
48 report which starts off with raw meat inspection
49 3rd January 1994.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: That is 88.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We are in the wrong section then.
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55 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, is that tab 8A?
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, it is.
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59 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): Do you have that, Dr. Pattison?
60 These documents that have been disclosed, are they typical
