The Bacteriological Examination of Food And Water

ethods and conclusions given. A number of different investigations have been published which extend and confirm the conclusions arrived at. In this addendum only those advances and new methods which facilitate the examination of the substances under consideration have been selected and summarised. A number of other procedures have been advocated, but they have not as yet been sufficiently controlled to include them as methods of approved value and utility. I. The Differentiation of the Streptococci. The organisms included under the term streptococci comprise such a large class, are responsible for so great an amount of human disease, and are so widely diffused in nature under saprophytic conditions that it is to be anticipated that repeated attempts will be made to arrive at some trustworthy methods for their differentiation. Such differentiation is as essential from the Public Health standpoint as it is from the more limited pathological aspect, since accurate means of separating streptococci of human from those of animal origin, and the saprophytic from the pathological types, would be of the greatest service. A number of investigations with these objects have recently been carried out, particularly in America, mostly since the first edition was written, and it may be of assistance to discuss, rather more in detail than in the text, how far these investigations have yielded results capable of practical application. From this point of view these tests...