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Show KOCH HOLDS POSITION Professor Maintains Former Stand on Consumption. READS ANOTHER PAPER When Tolson Is Eiten In a Community Commu-nity He Snys Widespread Directs Follow He Then Asks How It Is That No Ocneral Infection Follows the Dating of Tuberculosis Meat or the Drinking of Milk Tram a Tuberculosis Cow Hla Paper Causes a Sensation Ilerlln Oct 25 The sensillor) nf tn day s session of the International Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis congress nine tow aril the end of the sluing In the form of i paper h) Profeir Koch In which he maintained main-tained all his former positions regarding regard-ing the noii-trniisfciatillliy of animal tuberculosis to man Professor Kocli liegan by slating that he spoke at the desire of the central inmmlttie He wished tn be understood that his slate mem referred cvluslvcls In Ihe trans inlnslon of bovine tuben ulosls to men He asserted that his statistic on the subjeit of Intestinal tuben ulosls weie loo Incomplete ti est iiillnh the fro quern of thai disease Home aiithnrl ties sail the profesm.r rtei lure that In testlnnl inhere ulosls Is viry iniuinnii In the I nlted States and in Hugland while other nuthoillliK bold eoutiurs views c ases of the disease are not frequent In Hermans n Inquliv In stltuted by the (lovernment has proved linciILIH HAM? I ONPHMITIOV Taking up the alUgcd proof that human beings mas lie Infected with Imvlne tuberculosis thiougb skin lesions Pinfe-wir Koch admitted thai ease of tuberculosis do occur among butchers and other iersnns who ban lie animals but he asserted lhal the r-centagp r-centagp of suffclcrs fiom the disease am nig Joiner l equalls ns high as among hauliers of aulmilH mil meat POIVTP.I) QPHSllOS. ' If sal 1 the profesoi ' Infee'lon Is frciiinnt ihiuiigh milk positive iioof of this ought In be obtainable When poison Is eaten In a rominiinlts wlle-siruid wlle-siruid cITcct follow How Is It that no genet il Infection follow the eating ot tuben ulosla meat or the ill Inking of milk fiom n tuberculosis cow?' THVNHMIsqiov OP l)fli:Mi; He did not nlllrm he said, tint the transmission of tubiiculnsi fiom anl mal lo man wusilmposslble but that cases of the kind were cxtieiuely rim If they did occur He ha 1 cnllei ted twents eight case nf nppatttit trans mission of tuberculosis bu till a vol) small number anl In none of thise mill 1 the source of Infection be sintcd posltlvels tho data being Incomilete COMHA'niNG TI Hl.ltCHI.OSlfl If measure are taken to combat animal an-imal tuberculosis, went cm Prof Koch, they must bo em iionnmle, not Hint-tars Hint-tars giounds. lu order tu cnmbiit the disc isc Wo must n I at the tool of It mil establish beltrr duellings and workshop avoid civ cr-ciow ding, and Isol ito persons who are nffected with tubercular b ii llli This I the onls was tn meet tin enems Kxperlenco with other Infection piovc that Hilierculo-si Hilierculo-si cun bo successfully combined ' Prolonged e beer follow e I the rending of Prof Ivoeli paler, which will be pi luted In pumphlet fotm lu a few w eeks OPPOhTS KOCH H VII1W. 51 Noinid. it well known Tiench vet-primus vet-primus authorlts spoke In opposition tn Prof Koch s views Ho said the statements made b the professor led to two conclusions That transmission nf tubciculosl does not ocelli and that piecaullon are unnecessary Tho speaker sail n number of experiment mndn since Pi of Ko h Indnn nd-dres nd-dres roved that animal rurels take tuberculoma fiom man but that no doubt It can 1 contracted Tho dlf-feicnt dlf-feicnt degree of virulence he Hild depended upon environment 'I he bo vino line lllu M v'oeur 1 usserled was inoro virulent than tho human bacillus bacil-lus All tuberculous animal pmducts coul 1 Infect through alimentation M Not ird concluded bs nrgulng that Inline tuberculosis I trnnsrerinblc to man espcclalls Ihiough milk fiom u tubiiiutar victim, nod that a lacteal diet for children Is particularly danger ous He recommended n rlcjd Iiiwm -Hon ot ion stable! mid the boiling of all milk |