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in the surgical practice of Mr. Stiles at the Hospital 

 for Sick Children, Edinburgh : 



number T yP es of baci111 obtained Number Per 

 num. er , from the lesions of cases centage 



(Human type ... 12 ... 



Children under 5 years ... 47 < Human and bovine... 3 ... - 



I Bovine type ... 32 ... 68 



Children 5 to la years ... 2 o (SJffS? I " '". 



Of the children under 5 there were 16 under 

 2 years of age, and the bovine bacillus was found 

 in 12 of these, and it was ascertained that each 

 of these children had been fed from the first on 

 unsterilized cow's milk. 



Much more evidence could be brought forward, 

 but this I think sufficient to establish my first 

 point, that food, and particularly milk containing 

 Bacilli tuberculosis, is responsible not only for the 

 deaths but for the disablement of a considerable 

 number of infants and young children. 



Let us now look at the preventive measures, 

 which may be classed under two heads : 



(1) The sterilization of all milk which is given to 

 children. 



(2) The energetic control of our milk supplies. 

 We may dismiss the first of these in a few words, 



for it would be the merest folly to try in any way 

 to compel the sterilization of all milk which is sold, 

 even if this were desirable, and so long as unsterilized 

 milk can be bought, we can have no guarantee that 

 children will not be fed upon it. We are an unscientific 

 people and we object to compulsion in anything. We 

 may preach sterilization from morning till night and 

 from year's end to year's end, and the majority will 

 remain obdurate to our preaching. 



The second course is, therefore, the only one we need 

 concern ourselves with. We have already made many 

 advances. Our chief cities and many of our counties 



