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2. Equal administration all over the country to be
taken (a) to ensure the improvement of cowsheds, (b) the
systematic inspection of milch cows, and (c) to prevent the
distribution of milk from tuberculous cows.
3. To prevent the consumption of tuberculous meat.
At the meeting of the British Medical Association at
Carlisle in August last the following resolution was carried
unanimously:—
"This Section (Medicine) is of opinion that the Council
of the Association should take an early opportunity of
impressing upon the Government and Public Authorities,
having regard to the facts now fully established and
recognised by the Medical Profession, that tuberculosis is
an infective disease and capable of being controlled by
special measures that in order to produce any beneficial
results on an appreciable scale it is necessary:—
"1. That provision should be made at the public
expense for bacteriological laboratories by all the Sanitary
Authorities where the sputum from patients expected to
be tuberculous can be examined and reported upon.
"2. That on the discovery of pulmonary phthisis in
any individual of the poorer classes, provision should be
made for the treatment of such cases in a public institution
provided for the purpose at the public expense and by
voluntary contributions."
III.—Local Diseases.
The diseases in this class, which comprises eleven
orders, were accountable for 375 deaths, nearly one-half of
the total number registered during the year; the diseases
which caused the greatest fatality were those which affected
the heart (77) and the air passages (142).