TUBERCULOSIS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 525, 4 June 1909, Page 5

TUBERCULOSIS.

EXHIBITION OF PREVENTIVE METHODS. , SOCIAL REMEDIES. SPEECH BY MR. JOHN BURNS. ' (bi TKLSOnirn—ruEss ' association—cojpieioht.) (Reo. June 8, 9.37 p.m.) London, June 3. Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, opened tho Tuberculosis Exhibition at Wbitechapel, which is intended to illustrate tho methods of preventing ihe disoaso and of minimising its effccts where it.exists.. ... " ' ' • Mr. Burns / claimed \that Britain hod led the crusade against tuberculosis, romarking that direct, remedies were higher wages, less drink, less betting, and moro regular work. Ho added that open windows would stamp I out consumption in a generation. I A number of suffragettes wore ejected lor | persistently interrupting Mr. Burns. COMMISSION REPORTS. A Royal Commission is sitting to report *rith regard to tuberculosis) (1) whether the diseaso in animals and in man is one and the some; (2) whether animals and man can be reciprocally infected with.iti".(3) under what conditions* if at all, transmission' of the disease from animals to man takes place, and. what are the ciroumstances, favourable or able to suoh transmission. Members'. German: S. ( Woodheadj Esq., M.D., Sidney H. C. Martin, Esq., M.D., F.E.S., Sir John MTadyean, M.8., R. W. Boyce, Esq.! M.8., F.R.S. An interim report 'was Published in June,' 190 i, stating that the Commissioners had found that tubercle of human'origin-can give rise in the bovine animal to tuberculosis identical with ordinary. bovine tuberculosis j and therefore it would be most unwise to frame or modify) legislative measures on' the view that humah ! nnd bovine : tubercle bacilli were specifically different from en oh other.' A, second i interim report appeared: in February, 1907, and stated that cow's milk containing bovine tuberolo bacilli is clearly a.caUso of tuberculosis and of fatal -tuberculosis in man.; : A very large proportion of i tuberculosis centraoted by ingestion is duo to tubercle ■ bacilli l of bovine source, especially among tho voting. Cows' milk containing tubercle bacilli ought never to bo used I for . food, and measures more stringent- than thoseat present taken ought to bo enforced to ' prevent the.sale of such milk. I Mr. Blirns's Inspection cf Dairies and Cows' Bill was recently introduced in the House of I Commons. V ./■