THIRD INTERIM REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TUBERCULOSIS (GREAT BRITAIN).

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 1 December 1910, Page 5

THIRD INTERIM REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TUBERCULOSIS (GREAT BRITAIN).

POINTS OF INTEREST TO HEALTH AUTHORITIES. The third Interim Report ol' the Royal Commission appointed by the British Government to inquire into the relations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis has just been issued, and the findings thereof provide food for grave thought for those responsible for the preservation of Public Health. x . Extensive and exhaustive experiments extending over a series of years were conducted, and the fact established beyond the possibility of a doubt that the spread of Tuberculosis, or Consumption, among human beings is largely due to the presence of this dreaded plague in the dairy herds of the country, not merely by bacteria contained in the milk alone, but from the fact that large numbers of active bactilli are daily passing into the feces by cows affected with tuberculosis, even so slightly as to escape the notice of the most experienced herdsman. The dangers arising from this are great, inasmuch as when the faeces become dry —as some portions of it assuredly will—it gets distributed throughout the air of the cowhouse in the form of dust, such dust being thrown uy by the movements of the cattle themselves and their attendants, and consequently inhaled; thus the disease is spread, not only from one animal to another, but to those attending them as well. It is therefore the moral duty of every coW-keeper to take the necessary stops-to stop the spread'of this, terrible-plague so far. as. it lies in liis power to do sn. All ! ■ m.ilk sold should bo sWilirtM and , ■f*vpvv rjrwliAii*:/* 'v I d*rn* + Jt?yard should. 1 bo rl ic s (1 footed 'b>nv. with euni"'""rm Til +his cviif is "fho fllcTTifpr'fa""''. OuJTjpTl'c TCV""-*' it "*■ 0 .„„„ i'--. ,n.'ftd and clionpo.it germicide to vise.*

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