CONSUMPTION AND ITS CORE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 136, 9 June 1905, Page 3

CONSUMPTION AND ITS CORE.

WEED OUT TUBERCULOUS

COWS.

Tn Medical Press, discussing i the open-air treatment) of consumption reGently* asks of what us* it is to stamp out tuberculosis by treating a snail percentage of human sufferers in openair sanatoria. "It would be far better," the paper says, " to spend the money in weeding out tuberculous cows and pigs from the farms and dairies, and in regulating the rigorous skilled inspection of meat supplies. To permit the source of the evil to go on scattering the pestilence broadcast on the one hsnd, while treating a few of the victims of the evil, is to commit a logical blunder of ludicrous proportions. It is small wonder tkat medical men, under such circumstances, take a faint interest in the voluntary notification of tuberculosis. Well may they ask why the •anatarlans do not go to the root of the matter and look after meat and milk. It is, indeed, not a little curious that as a nation we are content to let things be, after having given an absolute negative to Koch's assertion of non-inter-eomnnnioability. The denial of kis precept, however, ia more than outweighed by the neglect to put our own belief into practice. This is not the logical state of Hind, nor the energy of action that hat secured for the United Kingdom practical immunity from plague, cholera, typhus and kindred infections."