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to be supposed that this was because they were of a 

 different race from ourselves. I believe it is because they 

 are much cleaner feeders than we are. 



Secondly, I would gladly have seen greater intelligence 

 and knowledge on the part of the public as regards the 

 danger to children and invalids who live almost exclu- 

 sively on milk of drinking it unsterilised or unboiled, 

 since one tuberculous cow infects the whole supply, and 

 this is not possible to detect by any analysis of the milk. 



Thirdly, I wished that the German rational outdoor 

 treatment of consumptive patients, when once they have 

 caught tuberculosis, or are so constituted that they are 

 likely to catch it, should be understood and practised in 

 England. 



The strides that have been made towards the accom- 

 plishment of these three wishes of mine during the last 

 year is simply astonishing. The newly formed National 

 Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, whose 

 office is in Hanover Square, has for its great object to 

 instruct people on the infectiousness of tuberculosis and 

 the best methods of arresting it. Everyone who read the 

 account of the first meeting of this society at Marl- 

 borough House must have been struck with the fact that 

 when the Queen's herd of cows were tested, thirty-six of 

 them were condemned to be slaughtered. 



A century ago, when first invalids were sent to the 

 Riviera and Madeira, all the doctors distinctly taught 

 that the disease was hereditary and not infectious. The 

 natives of these health resorts soon discovered, to their 

 cost, that the disease was infectious ; for it spread amongst 

 the population in the same way as it now has at Davos, 

 where tuberculosis was formerly unknown. The super- 

 stition, as the doctors of the 'forties thought it, of the 

 peasants round Nice who held that consumption was 

 really catching made such an impression on my mother, 



