Of the utmost interest and value to all humanity is the report of the British Royal Commission which for three years has studied the subject that tuberculosis in cattle is akin to human tuberculosis, that tuberculosis imparted to cattle by virus of human origin is precisely like that of bovine origin, and that presumably the reverse process is possible. The commission was appointed because of the sensational report made by Professor Koch, of Berlin, at the Congress on Tuberculosis in London in July, 1901, that there was no proved connection between animal and human disease of that nature. Commenting at the time upon Koch’s announcement, the World called for a prompt inquiry, and—because of the danger that the report might lead to laxness in inspection of food supplies—it added:— Meanwhile there is no reason to relax our inspection of milk or meat, or to pause in the policy of destroying tuberculosis herds. Even if doctors disagree, laymen will not need to be convinced that neither the milk nor the meat of fevered, diseased animals is fit for human food. In effect this is the conclusion of the British commission, which states that “it would be very unwise to frame or modify legislative measures in accordance with the view that human and bovine tubercle bacilli are specifically different, and that the disease caused by one is wholly different from the disease caused by the other.”—New York World.