TUBERCULOSIS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 79, 27 December 1907, Page 5

TUBERCULOSIS.

MEANS OP DIAGNOSIS INi INFANT&j ■a■■.- ; ' : X SEBUM. ' . . j ill TELEGBAPH—rREBS' ASSpOUraOH— OIPHTIGHT.; (Rec. Pcc..'2G,:9:47 a:ntX:T^,J,;. Vienna, December 25. j Dr. Paquet, a Viennese Professor, lias dis t covered a.' scVuni which , 'en'abks tutetculosis in infants to ho diagnosed within a few hours.' Tlie fact is bpriio out ,by ments. . / . '''"': Z '■ '■■

The importance of quick, easy, andfeacenrato' (lingnnsis of tuberculiKsis in iufairi;!> will >be trnrliered ffoin ii« intoiim report" pt'-Uio British. Ko.var'Cnmmission on tuberculosis, which em* plmsisos "the, (lunger' of infection -iom. cows" milk. Tin; report states: "Cows'; milk con; turning' bovine, bacilli is clo.arly i\ cause of tuberculosis, and 'fatal tuberculosis, in m.aiu ■.. . . A.very large'piopprtion of tuberculosis contractedi by ingestuin! is due to tubercle bacilli of bovine orism.l . . . Our results point clearly to the ueassity-of measures more titrinijont tlian those at present enforced being 'taken -to prevent the Kale or (he consumption of tuberculosis milk. ■ j Mr. -E. C. Dmisncld,'. ]iic,(:crjologist for berwell nnd Hackneyl, -und'"l)ircctor''bf the Cambcrwell ■ Research ' lik)i'oratb'rie/),'>'wi;iteKjcto the " Times": ,r ln llw samples of milk subr in it ted to me by various authorities for examination 1 have found ii steadily (liniinishinii. proportion of ti|bercular speciineus, whil?i there has been n correiponciing diminution iii the infantile death-rab). froin ; tubercular r'/isease, another. ijtrong intiTifiii3iiL'.D!rn&f."J3int the two are connected. . . . Til view of the diminishing birth-rate,', parents .who decb'ao to increase tlioir .parental litJ)iHties mipiit at, least make it their 'business to see thnt thb children whom they have are :prpl:ectqd,*.igaiii6ti two. of the most truly preventible -'diseases, known to the medical science." ' ;