CAUSES OF CONSUMPTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2546, 3 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

CAUSES OF CONSUMPTION.

Tub members of the Congress on tuberoolosis which has been sitting in Paris are all agreed in considering it to be caused by a bacille, consequently contagious and transmissible from animals to human beings. The members of the congress are about to embody in a book the result of their inquiries and the counsels which they desire to urge on parents, fanners, the public, and Governments for the eradiction of consumption. For tho present they urgently advise that not a drop of milk should be drnnk by infanta or by adults without being boiled ; and also that all patients afflicted with tubercolosis (which thoy consider as ideutical with scrofula, the two diseases being the same under a modified form) shall bo received in establishments judiciously prepared for their treatment and cure, in the country, apart from all outsiders, so as to check the propagation of tho terrible disorder. One member proposed to ask the Government to let them use condemned criminals, during forty days, for tho elucidation of tho various points on which light is being sought—as, for instance, their being exclusively fed during that time on tuberculosod meat, so as to ascertain with certainty whether the disease is thus transmissible. Before doing this it was decided to wait until the remedy for the disease had been discovered.