In a recent number of the JOURNAL, we published an abstract of the
reported investigations of Mr. Power, Dr. Cameron and Dr. Klein of a
disease among cows, which they believed had caused scarlatina among
persons using the milk. The conclusions reached by these gentlemen
seemed so startling that the Agricultural Department of the Privy
Council began an investigation of the disease. The investigation was
given into the hands of Dr. Cruikshank, whose reports are published in
the _British Medical Journal_ of December 17, 1887, and January 21,
1888.
We have only space here to reproduce the conclusions reached by Dr.
Cruikshank, which are as follows: