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(8) Dr. Gage, city physician of Lowell, Mass., reports the case of 

 an infant dying of tubercular meningitis. It had no tuberculous 

 ancestry and had never been fed on anything but unsterilized milk 

 from one cow. This cow's milk was examined microscopically and 

 found to contain tubercle bacilli. Guinea pigs inoculated with the 

 milk died of tuberculosis. A second child of the same family, fed 

 on the same cow's milk was also developing tuberculosis. At that 

 time (1890) the cow could not be condemned and destroyed. Hence, 

 a year later Dr. Gage found this cow furnishing infected milk to the 

 public. 



(9) Dr. Treon states that the Indians of the northwest eat the un- 

 cooked livers, entrails, tallow and other parts of the poor cattle fur- 

 nished them by the agents of the government. These carcasses are 

 eaten fresh or dried and are rarely, if ever cooked. In many tribes 

 the mortality from tuberculosis is 50 per cent, of all the deaths. At 

 Crow Creek agency 50 out of 1200 indians die annually from tuber- 

 culosis. Another authority states that the food of the indians is the 

 primary cause of disease among them, and when the supply of fresh 

 beef is most abundant the death rate from consumption is the 

 greatest. 



(10) Dr. E. O. Shakespeare, of Philadelphia, a noted specialist in 

 bacteriology and pathology, says : "It has been found that in infants 

 and young children in some large cities the mortality from some 

 form of tuberculosis is far greater than is generally believed, amount- 

 ing, in some localities to one-fifth of the deaths in the young. The 

 significant fact in this connection is that it is most frequently some 

 part of the digestive tract that first become affected." 



(11) From the report of the English Royal Commission of 1895, 

 the following extract is taken: "There is reason to believe that 

 tuberculous matter, when present in meat sold to the public, is more 

 commonly due to the contamination of the surface of the meat with 

 material derived from other diseased parts than the meat itself. The 

 same matter is found in the milk of course when the udder has be- 

 come invaded by tuberculous disease, and seldom or never when the 

 udder is not diseased. Tuberculous matter in milk is exceptionally 

 active in its operation upon animals fed either with the milk or with 

 dairy produce derived from it. No doubt the largest part of tuber- 

 culosis which man obtains through his food is by means of milk con- 

 taining tuberculous matter." 



(12) The statement is frequently made by medical men and others 

 that since the freedom of the negroes there has been a remarkable 

 increase in the amount of tuberculosis among them. This is said to 

 be due to the bad sanitary condition of their homes ; their crowding 

 together in filthy, unclean beds and rooms ; the indiscriminate mix- 



