TUBERCULOSIS.
The London Conference. Important Address by Dr. Koch. United Press Associatien* By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received July 25, 9.5 a.m.) London, July 2i. At the Tuberculosis Conference Doctor Koch, the eminent German specialist, in the course of an address stated that the sputum from a consumptive patient was the chief source of infection. Cases where bovine tuberculosis was transmitted to human beings through alimenta were extremely rare. Statistics taken from his sanatorium showed promising beginnings, and there was a prospect of curing half the number of patients treated, but the establishment of sanatoria would never render preventive measures superfluous. Dr Koch said that elaborate precautions against tuberculosis in milk, meat, and butter were unnecessary. Lord Lister said that if Dr Koch's startling statement were correct the problem was simplified. Still, he regarded it not proved that bovine tuberculosis was uncommunicable to man and it would be unwise to relax precautions. Foreign experts gave weighty reasons against Dr Koch's conclusions.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9296, 25 July 1901, Page 5
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