APPENDIX VI. 



Till' .Srciind Interim Report of the Royal Commission on 

 Human and Animal Tuberculosis wa.s issued in January, 1907. 

 It [ircsi'iits the conclusions of the cdmmission after thorough 

 ami extensive investigations eoverin<f more than five years. 



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

 Woodhead. Prof. Sidney .Martin, Sir John McFadyean and 

 Prof. Kubert Boyci'. 



The followiufi: is an exti'aet : 



CONCLUSION 



AVe may briefly sum up the hearings of the rcsnlts at 

 which we have already arrived as follnws: 



There vail be iiu ddiibl bui Ihal in a cirlnin iiuinln r of 

 crisis Ihr I uberciiliisis neeairinij in tile human subject, r^- 

 /iieialhj ill ehildn II, is the (tiriil nsiitt nf tin i iitro<liielii)ii iiilo 

 till human bmtii (if tlic liiieillus of liovine tutu reutosis : anil 

 there atsii van be iiii (toubt Hint in tin majurihj al trust of 

 these eases the baiiltus is i ill I'liil iieeil through emrs' mill,'. 

 I'ou's' iiiillr einitui iiiiift bovini tutu rcic liaeitii is eharlij a cause 

 of tutu reutosis ami of fatal tubcreutusls in man* 



" (M' tln' sixty eases of human tuberculosis investiiiiiled by 

 us. fourteen of th(> viruses l)eloiit;ed to Grouji I, that is to say 

 contained the boviiu' bacillus. If. instead of taking all these 

 sixt>' rases, we confine oui'seh'es to eases of tuberculosis in 

 which the liacilli were apparently introduced into the body by 

 way of the alimiMitary canal, the proportion of Group I beeomi's 

 \-ery nuu'h larger. Of the total sixty cases investigated by us. 

 t\\ent>-eight ]iossi'ss(h1 clinical histori(»s indicating that in them 

 the l)acil]ns was introduced through the alimentary canal. Of 

 these, thirteen lielong to Group T. Of the nine cases in which 

 eer\ii-al glands were studied by us three, and <if the nineteen 



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