APPENDIX V. 



EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE 



BRITISH ROYAL COMMISSION ON 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



The Second Interim Report of the Royal Commission on 

 Iiuuan and Animal Tuberculosis was issued in January, 1907. 

 t presents the conclusions of the commission after thorough 

 .nd extensive investigations covering more than five years. 



The report is signed by Sir Michael Foster, Prof. G. Sims 

 iVoodhead, Prof. Sidney Martin, Sir John McFadyean and 

 'rof. Rubert Boyce. 



The following is an extract: 



CONCLUSION 



" We may briefly sum up the bearings of the results at 

 rhich we have already arrived as follows: 



" There, can he no doubt but that in a certain number of 

 aseS the tuberculosis occurring in the human subject, es- 

 >ecially in children, is the direct result of the introduction into 

 he human body of the bacillus of bovine tuberculosis; and 

 here also can be no doubt that in the majority at least of 

 hese cases the bacillus is introduced through cows' milk, 

 lows' milk containing bovine tubercle bacilli is clearly a cause 

 f tuberculosis and of fatal tuberculosis in man* 



" Of the sixty cases of human tuberculosis investigated by 

 IS, fourteen of the viruses belonged to Group I, that is to say 

 ontained the bovine bacillus. If, instead of taking all these 

 ixty cases, we confine ourselves to cases of tuberculosis in 

 rlaieb. the bacilli were apparently introduced into the body by 

 ray of the alimentary canal, the proportion of Group I becomes 

 ery much larger. Of the total sixty cases investigated by us, 



* Original not italicized. 



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