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BBUULIK Aeeoolate Comittoa-in-Ju^erouloBlt D-l The seventh meeting of the Lf*ooiate Committee on Tuberoulols was bold in Ottawa on June 17, 1936, with 16 pereons in attendance. Or. Oaksr Clots wai obeirsan of tbo Mating* Or. Iu. Watson presented a report oovering tubarouloBli raaaaroh oarried out by the Health of Animals Branob of the Dominion Department of agyioulture. Tbo work bod chiefly to do with tuberoulin usod for tasting oattls under tba dspertnont'a tubaroulosia aradioation plan* Dr* Hilton reportad that tba department was now testing about one million oattla par year. Dr* B.O* Perguscn, Bead of the Qu'^ppelle Indian Health Unit in Saskatchewan, outlined to the oocnaittee hi a work on the control of tuberoulosis amongst Indian obildren attending boarding obooli and on the- veooination of Indian obildren with B.C.O. (Bacillus Gainstte-Ou4rin), wblob waa undertaken on the recom mendation of tbo oommittee* Tubaroulosia amongst the Indians has been radically reduced by tbs isolation of motive oases, espeolally those among tbs school obildren* Taooination with 2.0.0. has not yet progressed far enough to do sure than confirm the lnnocuity of this vsoolas. The committee considers, however, that Dr. Itrguscn has a unique opportunity to carry out a aoientifio test of tbs value of 2*C*0, slnoe (a) tbs Indian raoe la unusually usosptibl# to tuberoulosis, (b) the situation in tbs Qu'i.ppelltIndian Health Unit is auoh that Dr. Pargusoa oan make bis vaooinatod and oontrol groups ezaotly alike, and (o) be it able to eoure post-aortam examinetions and thus definitely detainine tbs oauae of death. A period of aome years will be required to de termine what degree of resistenoe is oonferred by B.C.O, Tuberculosis researoh at Queen's University, not now supported fins noisily by tbs ooomittse, was reported on by Dr. -I* ,0 worJc 11 present being done on B.C.O., but an effort is being made to obeok, by means of tba complement fixation tost, tuberculin tests wblob have been oarrled out on Indian obildren in Saskatchewan and similar tests on vaooinsted oettla dt tbs UniTsrfity of Alberts. Positive results were obtained on tbs aara from 11 Indies obildren end negative results on the sera from 40 vaooinsted oattlo, in both ossss olosoly obeoking the results of tuberculin teitir*. large-scale experiments on the Taooinatlon of oattlo with 1.0*0. at the ^Diversity of Alberta were reported by Dean A., Haakin as p'aotloally oomplete. He had found that B.C.O. was entirely udoououi and that it oonferrod a substantial degree of resistance but not oomplete immunity to tuberculosis in oat tie. There remained for oompletien hiatologloal studies of vaooinsted animals wblob Md been expeetd to tuberouloiis and subsequently slaughtered, end mlto observations on one mull group of treooinated an<le in a