Tuberculosis in childhood / by Dorothy Stopford Price ; with a chapter on tuberculous orthopaedic lesions and other contributions by Henry F. MacAuley.
- Price, Dorothy (Dorothy Stopford), 1890-
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Tuberculosis in childhood / by Dorothy Stopford Price ; with a chapter on tuberculous orthopaedic lesions and other contributions by Henry F. MacAuley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cows were found to react positive to the tuberculin test, and were found to be infected during the inspection of carcases. Only a small proportion of these cows, however, yield tuber- culous milk at all times—many only excrete tubercle bacilli in the milk at intervals; cows with advanced disease and tuber- culous udders which give badly infected milk are becoming more rare. In London, 3-2 per cent of milk samples were found to be infected with tubercle bacilli, and 5 to 10 per cent of cows in England were found to yield tuberculous milk. In four cities in Scotland, samples of milk examined showed that 10 per cent were infected by the tubercle bacillus. In Ireland bacterio- logical examination of milks in Dublin by Bigger showed 8 per cent of samples to contain tubercle bacilli, and in Cork by Cussen (156 samples by guinea-pig inoculation) showed 6-4 per cent to contain tubercle bacilli. In Scotland there is a relatively high incidence of infection of the lung by the bovine type of bacillus. The same is found in Denmark, but the numbers are lessening owing to an intensive campaign to stamp out tuberculosis in cattle. Table VIII (taken from a table by Holm [1946]) shows the results of examinations in the State Serum Institute, Copen- hagen, in typing the bacillus from pulmonary and extrapulmonary lesions in children. Table VIII.—RELATIVE FREQUENCIES OF BOVINE TYPE BACILLUS IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY AND EXTRAPULMONARY FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS ; DATA COMPILED FOR PATIENTS LIVING ON JAN. 1, 1944 (After Holm, 1946) PULMONARY EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS TUBERCULOSIS AGE GROUPS Total : Total , Human Bovine Human Bovine and and Bovine | Number | Per cent | Bovine | Number | Per cent Total all ages over 0 —over 70 Mom Ll. O72 384 3:5 | 1,454 204. 14-0 O— 4 years oe 473 18 3°8 91 31 34-1 imei at ey vate 4.76 15 3:2 el 20 28-2 10-14 __s,, is 519 7 1:3 43 7 16-3 15-19 _,, re ee i 51 3°5 130 23 77, 20-24 ,, ne Pep ter” 68 3:0 190 24) 12-6](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32784636_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
