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human lesions. He suggested that investigations should be carried
out in India on two lines : (1) More should be done to ascertain the
true prevalence of tuberculosis in cattle ; (2) Work should be done
in regard to the differentiation of the types responsible for bone
and joint tuberculosis in human beings. He considered that the
first line of investigation suggested was of vast importance to the
hygiene of man, for the " closed " form of tuberculosis was due in
many cases to bacilli of the bovine type, and a very large proportion
of cases of the tuberculosis of children was traceable to infection
from the milk supply. He described the efforts of the Medical
Research Committee at Home at the present time in this direction,
and stated that they were now in the course of carrying out extensive
investigations on the reliability of tuberculin tests. The information
which would soon be available would be of very considerable value.
As regards the milk supply, almost every province was now legislat-
ing or contemplating legislation on the ordinary lines dealing with
the adulteration of food and the prevention of the sale of adulterated
milk.

    Mr. Edwards first related the action which had been taken
recently by the Government of India and the maritime provinces
in drafting regulations under the Live Stock Importation Act, 1898,
for the prohibition of importation of cattle suffering from tuber-
culosis. The landing of cattle was now prohibited except at a few
ports and all the maritime provinces had drafted regulations for
prohibiting the importation of tuberculous cattle. From the
available evidence it seemed that the incidence of tuberculosis
among animals in India at the present time was low. Where
examination of carcases of cattle at slaughter houses had been
undertaken the incidence was found to be about 3 per cent. He
summarized the information which had been published in this
respect. In quite recent years some careful experimental work
had been done on a relatively small scale by Glen Liston and Sopar-
kar in Bombay and by Sheather at Muktesar. It seemed from the
results of the former workers that the susceptibility of Indian cattle
to infection was rather low, whereas the Muktesar work appeared
to indicate that the bovine strain of organism found in India was of
a relatively low virulence. In most of the cases recorded, the lesions
had assumed the form of localised, discrete tubercles, but in a case
which had now been recorded by Mr. Sowerby in an indigenous
ox from the Bombay Presidency the lesions seemed to be widely
distributed throughout the body. It would, therefore, seem that
cattle in India that became infected were quite liable to suffer from
the disease in a serious form. However, he considered that a great
deal of research work must be done as soon as possible to obtain
more information upon these important points relative to the