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inconsiderable proportion of milk was brought daily
for sale within our area, and then only after a
very suspicious case had occurred necessitating
investigations and representations.
In the second interim report of the Royal
Commission on Tuberculosis, amongst other conclusions,
the following are noticeable :—
(a) "We feel justified in asserting that . . . .
the tuberculosis set up by the bacillus of human
source is, so far as its anatomical and histological
features are concerned, one and the same as the
tuberculosis set up by the bacillus of bovine
source."
(b) " There can be no doubt but that in a
certain number of cases the tuberculosis occurring
in the human subject, especially in children, is the
direct result of the introduction into the human body
of the bacillus of bovine tuberculosis ; and there also
can be no doubt that, in the majority at least of
these cases, the bacillus is introduced through cow's
milk. Cow's milk containing bovine tubercle bacilli
is clearly a cause of tuberculosis, and of fatal tuberculosis
in man."
(c) "A very considerable amount of disease and
loss of life, especially among the young, must be
attributed to the consumption of cow's milk containing
tubercle bacilli. The presence of tubercle
bacilli in cow's milk can be detected, though with
some difficulty, if the proper means be adopted, and
such milk ought never to be used as food. There
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