TUBERCULOSIS.
STATEMENT BY DR KOCH,
By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright London, July 24. At the Tuberculosis Conference, Dr Koch, the ominent German specialist, in the course of an address, stated that the sputum from a consumptive patient was tho chief source of infection. Cases where bovine tuberculosis was transmitted to human beings through tho alimentary canal were extremely rare. Statistics taken at his sanatorium showed that in promising beginnings there was a prospect of curing half tho patients treated, but tho establishment of sanitoria would never render preventative measures superfluous. Dr Koch said elaborate precautions against tuberculosis in milk, meat, and hutter were unnecessary. Lord Lister said if Dr Koch’s startling statement was correct, the problem was simplified. Still, .'he regarded it as not proved that bovine tuberculosis was not communicable to man. It would bo nnwisojo relax precautions.
Foreign oxperts gave weighty reasons against Dr Koch’s conclusions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 167, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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