BY C. E. BAENAED, M.D. 



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information can be obtained as to the extent these diseases 

 prevail in our midst. 



A similar institution should be founded in connection with 

 the Health Department of this colony, as modern science now 

 is not content with mere superficial examination, but 

 proceeds with more strict and reliable methods to detect the 

 micro-organisms, which are undoubtedly the active agents in 

 the production of disease. 



I cannot conclude these notes better than by quoting 

 the closing words of Professor Robert Koch in an address 

 before the International Medical Congress held in Berlin, 

 August, 1890, in which he had for the first time clearly 



foreshadowed the result 



far of his researches for the 



purpose of discovering a method of arresting the development 

 of tuberculosis in the animal system, and had expressed a 

 hope that he was on the eve of complete success in obtaining 

 this grand result. He concludes as follows :— " Allow me, 

 therefore, to conclude this address with the expression of a 

 wish that the nations may measure their strength on this 

 field of labour and in war against the smallest, but the most 

 deadly foes of the human race, and that in this struggle for 

 the weal of all mankind one nation may always strive to 

 surpass the other in the successes which it achieves." 



