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CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS. 
leaflet on the nature and contagious character of tuberculosis. 
Of this 100,000 copies were distributed among the public. In 
all public establishments, as well as in many other places, in¬ 
formation as to the nature and contagiousness of tuberculosis 
has been placarded about; similarly, expectorating has been for¬ 
bidden on all tramways and in railway carriages. 
As to precautions established by law against tuberculosis, 
there are very few of them in Denmark. According to the law 
relating to epidemics, gratuitous disinfection after cases of death 
due to tuberculosis is enjoined ; the same law enacts that ap¬ 
prentices, before being admitted to manufactories, be bound to 
show a doctor’s certificate declaring that they are in good health ; 
and by a new law relating to labor in factories decreed last year, 
some regulations as to cleanliness in these establishments have 
been enacted. But that is all that has been done on the part of 
the Legislature. 
The Sanitary Commission of Copenhagen, on the other 
hand, by a decision dated May 15th, 1901, has enacted that by 
public provisions pending a new order, practising physicians 
may have sputum examined for tubercle bacilli free of charge, 
in doubtful cases of phthisis. Receptacles required for the re¬ 
ceipt and transmission of the sputum are to be had from all the 
pharmaceutical chemists in the city, and are delivered up for 
examination at the laboratory of the Sanitary Commission, 12, 
Norrevaldgade. The laboratories, in their turn, will send a 
written report on the result of the analysis to the physician con¬ 
cerned at the earliest possible moment. 
In almost all the towns of Denmark, control over meat sup¬ 
ply is established, but it is solely an affair of the town whether 
it elects to put such control in force. 
In regard to tuberculosis among animals, thanks to the efforts 
of Professor B. Bang, Denmark occupies a position among the 
most advanced nations. In each year’s budget there are voted 
on behalf of this department three or four hundred thousand 
francs. By means of subsidies from the State, on behalf of vol¬ 
untary inspections against tuberculosis, every owner is author¬ 
ized to have his live-stock disinfected ; and it is ordered by law 
that the milk served from dairies as provender for cattle must 
be heated to ioo° Celsius. Similarly, cattle suffering from tu¬ 
berculous inflammation of the udder must be slaughtered pend¬ 
ing compensation to the owner; and the residuum of the 
products of centrifugal machines must be burnt and not used as 
pigs’ provender. 
