TUBERCULOSIS.
BOVAi- COM ;V1 ISSION’S RaPO.BI. RESULTS OF EXHAUSTIVE EXPKIUM ENTS. LONDON, June 1. The report has been published of the Iloyal Commission appointed to report—(l) Whether tuberculosis in animals and i a man is one and the same; (2) whether animals and man can be reciprocally iufocted with it; (J) under what conditions, if at all, transmission of the disease from animals to man takea place, and what are the circumstances favourable or unfavourable to such transmission. The Commission consisted of Sir Michael Foster (chairman), K.G.li., F.it.S., M.P., Mr German S. Wocdhead, M.D., Mr Sidney ±±. C. Martin, M.D., F.K.S., Mr o , -uebadyenn, M. 8., Mr it. W. Boyce, M.D., F.It.S. (secretary) and Dr E. J. SteegmanT
Tho Commission, after exhaustive experiments on two hundred bovine animals, reports that the disea.se communicated to bovine animals by material •t human origin is, m broad general features and liner histological details, identical with the disease communicated to bovine animals by material of bovine origin.
Tho Commission considers it would bo most unwise to legislate under the belief that human and bovine tubercle bacilli specifically differ, or that the disease caused by tho one is wholly different from the disease caused by the other.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5293, 3 June 1904, Page 5
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