Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge.

  • Legge, Sir Thomas Morison, 1863-1932.
Date:
1896
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    Minister was to have the power of employing a part of the sum in aiding associations for the breeding of cattle that might wish to have the animals tested with the material. In addition to furnishing the tuberculin gratuitously, the Government also gives the farmers the services of a veteri- nary surgeon to perform the operation. Results Of the In a PaPer read at the Congress of Hygiene Experiment. at p^cla-Pesth in 1894, Professor Bang gives the results of the first year’s work, reports having been received concerning 327 herds. Of 8,401 cows examined, 5,039 were found healthy, and 3,362 reacted in the manner characteristic of tuberculous lesions. Tuberculosis was found much more prevalent in large than in small herds. Fifty-one herds in all were found quite free from the disease. In eighty-two others as many as 5770 per cent, of the animals reacted. In seventy small herds, thirty-six had less than 50 per cent, of the animals affected (twenty- eight had less than 25 per cent.), whilst thirty-four had more than 50 per cent, including fourteen with 75 per cent, affected. The method he adopts is the injection sub cutem of 0^4 gramme of tuberculin in full-grown animals, and of o’i gramme in calves. The reaction usually follows the inocula- tion in the course of from eight to twelve hours, the signs being raised temperature, loss of appetite, diminution in the supply of milk, etc. The first injection is of most import- ance, the second one often failing to produce any effect, even in animals with marked tubercle. Of eighty tuberculous animals killed, seventy-three had shown a marked reaction, five had not reacted—but in these the signs of tubercle were very slight, and not of recent date—and the remaining two, which gave a very slight reaction, had but little signs of tubercle. Professor Bang considers that tuberculin only fails as a means of diagnosis in less than nine per cent, of