Day 104 - 15 Mar 95 - Page 56
1 Q. Yes?
2 A. Yes.
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4 Q. So is it both factors, the age and the fact of the weight?
5 A. That may be a factor.
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7 MR. MORRIS: You said in your, I think it was,
8 examination-in-chief with Mr. Rampton, that the death from
9 Gumboro disease averaged two and a half per cent a week
10 during that phase when that was a problem?
11 A. Yes.
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13 Q. Is that on a shed-by-shed basis? In other words, in a
14 particular shed two and a half per cent would die one week
15 and then two and a half per cent would die the next week?
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, I think it was overall, was it not?
18 A. Yes. I was describing the overall company situation
19 across all farms.
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21 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, we had all this yesterday.
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23 MR. MORRIS: I am clarifying.
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25 MR. RAMPTON: We had all the clarification yesterday.
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27 MR. MORRIS: I do not think we have and I will ask him the
28 questions.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it was pretty clear.
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32 MR. MORRIS: Yes, but it was different from what he said in his
33 examination-in-chief, that is why I am trying clarify it.
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35 (To the witness) What do you mean by 2 and half per cent a
36 week?
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He has just said "across the company"?
39 A. Across the company.
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41 MR. MORRIS: So every week 2 and a half per cent of entire
42 company stock would die from Gumboro disease?
43 A. Across the whole company, yes. That is what it means.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: As an average?
46 A. As an average.
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48 MR. MORRIS: Right.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is an average week as well?
51 A. Yes.
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53 Q. Presumably, unhappily, you get heavy weeks?
54 A. That is correct.
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56 Q. Then you get less unhappy weeks.
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58 MR. MORRIS: Are you aware of a report by the Public Health
59 Laboratory Service -- do you follow the reports that are
60 relevant to, for example, Salmonella infections of bodies
