DR. KOCH ON CONSUMPTION.
CHIEF SOURCE OF INFECTION. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— ' London, July 24. Before the Tuberculosis Conference, opened this week in London by the Duke of Cambridge, Dr. Koch, the eminent German specialist, and recognised authority on tuberculosis, in the course of an address stated that sputum from a consumptive patient was the chief source of infection. Cases where bovine tuberculosis was transmitted to human beings through alimenta were t , extremely rare. Statistics taken at his sanatorium showed promising beginnings, and that there was a prospect of curing half the 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 if Dr. Koch's startling statements were correct the problem of dealing effectively with this dread disease was simplified. Still, he regarded it as not proved that bovine tuberculosis was uncommunicable to man, and it would be unwise to relax precautions. Several foreign experts gave weighty. reasons against Dr. Koch's conclusions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11716, 26 July 1901, Page 5
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