Excerpt from Hearing Before the Committee on Public Health on Dangers to Human Life From Bacilli of Tuberculosis in Milk: February, 1891The chairman. Allow me to ask, right here, for this is a question of some importance, have you a condensation of your thoughts that you could submit to us in type-writing, or in any way?Dr. Ernst. - I think that you have that, sir, in the report already in your hands. In addition to what there is in thatreport, the tables of the experimental work, which are of no practical value so far as the reading is concerned, have been prepared, but I think you will find in that report all that is necessary.In regard to the importance of this investigation, that is something which will be readily seen when it is considered that tuberculosis is the most wide-spread disease which affects humanity. It is unquestionable that, in all civilized coun tries, at least one-seventh of the deaths from all forms of disease in human beings are due to this one thing. It is also true that tuberculosis is one of the most common dis eases among cattle which are used for a milk supply, that is to say, among cattle which are kept under confined condi tions, and the results of investigations for the last seven or eight years have shown distinctly that this disease is due to a Special micro-organism, that the disease occurring in human beings and in cattle is exactly the same, and that, by inference, the occurrence Of the disease in cattle used for a milk supply helps on the occurrence of the disease among human beings. Whether that was true or not was the question which was put before us as the expert investigators of this Society to determine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.