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I have repeatedly reported on the necessity for additional legislative powers
for controlling the milk trade.* It is now established beyond a doubt that
tuberculosis can be transmitted to the human being by the agency of milk,
and the urgency for such powers is indicated by the knowledge that this
disease is increasing amongst animals. It has been stated on good authority
that—
"† as far as we can ascertain from numerous records which have been
"made, there has been a great, almost an alarming, increase in the
"number of animals affected with tuberculosis during recent years."
Further, that out of 500 cows examined after slaughter by the City
Veterinary Inspector, some evidence of tuberculosis was found in no less than
234, or 46.8 per cent. X
* For some further notes on this point see Report, Medical Officer of Health, on the "Second Interim
Report of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the relations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis."
February, 1907. Also footnote on p. 119.
† "Cattle Tuberculosis," by Harold Sessions, F.R.C.V.S., &c.
‡ Annual Report, Veterinary Inspector to the Cattle Markets Committee, for the year 1901.