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sages, etc., etc., but the Board set its face against 

 them, and advised more careful and cleanly processes of 

 manufacture and storage. The experience of the past year 

 has proved that this has been completely successful, for the 

 analytical returns show almost absence of these substances, 

 and still the foods are supplied and consumed without 

 inconvenience. Before, it was the trader who profited, 

 and the consumer who suffered. As to the simple adulter- 

 ations, e.g., water added to milk — they are simple frauds 

 of no interest to us. But in passing we may ask what ought 

 to be done to the milk man who, it has been calculated, 

 gains hundreds a year by adding water to the milk (?) he 

 sells? Is simple fining sufficient? No. 



Third, in regard to our fish supply something should be 

 done to punish fishermen who wantonly destroy large hauls 

 in order to keep up the price of fish, for a wholesome food 

 becomes scarcer and scarcer, dearer and dearer. Having 

 regard to the abundance and variety of fish around our shores 

 and to the not very rigorous climatic conditions besetting 

 the fishermen in Australia, the produce of the deep should be 

 plentiful, good and cheap. It is in reality lacking in all 

 these points. No doubt difficulties of distribution have 

 their influence, but they are not insuperable, and all things 

 considered, something might, I think, be done. Anyhow, 

 the time has come for inquiry, and this I trust will be made 

 forthwith in the interests of the people generally, for again 

 it is the poor man who suffers most. 



The past year has been notable for the work of the Royal 

 Commission on Tuberculosis. It will be remembered that 

 at the International Congress on Tuberculosis, held in 

 London in 1891, and of which I had the honour of being 

 a Vice-President of the Medical Section, Koch made 

 the startling announcement that bovine and human 

 tubercle bacilli were so different that the likelihood 



