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great Institutes of Health on the Continent and 

 elsewhere should surely make the sporadic work, 

 as by comparison it must be designated, produced 

 in this country an eloquent argument for the 

 creation of a British Imperial Board of Health 

 adequately endowed by the State, manned by the 

 ablest investigators, and forming a centre for the 

 prosecution of researches which in other countries, 

 as in our own, have contributed so greatly to the 

 health and welfare of mankind. 



Why should England for ever have to knock at 

 the door of foreign institutes for information and 

 guidance in matters in which once she was the 

 leader and enlightened example to every civilised 

 country ? 



The question of how far polluted water-supplies, 

 besides possessing the potentiality for spreading 

 cholera and typhoid, may disseminate consump- 

 tion, has been approached in a very instructive 

 manner by Dr. Musehold, of the German Imperial 

 Board of Health. 



Some ten years ago the discovery of the tubercle 

 bacillus in water for the first time was announced 

 by a Spanish investigator, Fernandez. The water 

 containing the bacillus tuberculosis was derived 

 from an open ditch, and hence had been doubtless 

 exposed to contamination of divers kinds. 



In the course of the elaborate experiments on 



