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Report of Royal Commission.
The Royal Commission on Human and Animal
Tuberculosis issued its final report in July, 1911. After
a series of exhaustive experiments and investigations the
Commissioners find that tuberculosis in men and in
cattle must unquestionably be pronounced one and the
same disease, and that a large proportion of the tuberculosis
of early life must be attributed to infection with
bacilli of the bovine type transmitted to children in
meals consisting largely of the milk of the cow. They
state that they are convinced that measures for securing
the prevention of ingestion of living bovine bacilli with
milk, would greatly reduce the number of cases of abdominal
and cervical gland tuberculosis in children, and
that such measures should include the exclusion from the
food supply of the milk of the recognisably tuberculous
cow, irrespective of the site of the disease, whether
in the udder or in the internal organs.

The death-rate was 0.42 per 1,000, being 0.15 below
that of the County of London and 0.10 below the average
rate in Fulham during the previous 10 years. Owing
to the special prevalence of the disease throughout