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THE appointment of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis was announced in Tuesday's Gazette. The Commission is composed of Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., F. R.S., Prof. G. S. Woodhead, Prof. S. H. C. Martin, Prof. J. McFadyean, and Prof. R. W. Boyce. It is appointed to inquire and report with respect to tuberculosis:—(1) Whether the disease in animals and man is one and the same; (2) whether animals and man clik be reciprocally infected with it; and (3) under what conditions, if at all, the transmission of the disease from animals to man takes place, and what are the circumstances favourable or unfavourable to such transmission.
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Notes . Nature 64, 452–456 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064452a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/064452a0
