Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25
up this occupation for at least double
the working time. S

up this occupation for at least double
the working time.
I But the most dangerous work is that
of the grinders and polishers of cut
glass. About thirty five per cent Of
them have chronic pneumonia (phth-
isis), and, their average age at death
/ is variously given at from thirty to
| forty-two years. Putegnat '{de Lunne-
WILEY has described a peculiar form OF
gingivitis which he has observed among
glass-cutters, and which he says attacks
ninety-fve out of every hundred
workmen. It comes on in about three
| months after, the person begins work,
and toward the sixth month is well de-
Iveloped. 1t attacks by preference the
upper jaw, and is accompanied by the
same blue line that is found in cases of
blood-poisoning. The acid secretion Of
the gums destroys the enamel of the
teeth, which soon become pointed, brit
tie and break off close to the alveoli.
| leaving permanent stump. The gums
remain soft and spongy, and the breath
is very fetid. .eDfas4 -, 81 osa
| When persons first begin to work at
| tobacco they almost invariably suffer
from headache, and often from nausea
and vomiting. They pass sleepless
nights and are frequently troubled with
dlarrhea. These symptoms indicate q
slight degree of poisoning by nicotine.
| In a week or two the symptoms wear
| away, and in the majority of cases no
further trouble is experienced. Accord.
ing to Heurtaux, physician to the manu-
| factory at Paris. the amount of fibrin in
the blood is diminished, and tobacco
hands are peculiarly liable to passive
congestion. Boubet, however, could
find no change in the blood. , z,l.,s
The makers of feather ornaments, who
are mostly women, inhale more or less
dust containing particles of feathers. Ac-
cording to Hirt, the work can only be
carried on by any one person for three
years at the furthest without great im-
pairment of health. The lungs and eyes
both suffer. There is hardly woman
who, after long employment at the work,
does not have chronic Inflammation OF
the eyes. At the post-mortem exanlina-
ton of man, who, in order to sort the
feathers better, had kept the doors and
windows of his room closed, the main
bronchi were found thickly plastered
with feathers and almost obstructed.
Hair-picking also raises clouds of dust
and keeps the workmen constantly
coughing. The hairs, moreover, are
stiff, and when inhaled tend to create
permanent irritation of the trachea and
bronchi, as in brush-makers. The dress
ing of hair for pillows, mattresses, ETC.,
sometimes gives rise to serious diseases.
The hair which comes from Siberia and
other parts of Russia is particularly dam
gerous, those who handle professionally
contracting malignant pustule. The
cause of this poisonous quality is not
surely known, but it is probable that
some of the Russian hair is pulled out
from putrefying carcasses, or perhaps
from the bodies of animals that have
died of contagious diseases. According
to Layet, even CHAMBERS have been COM
municated in this way.
The workmen in lead mines suffer
greatly. According to Hirt, out of two
thousand miners in Saxony, one thou
sand seven hundred and forty three were
poisoned, and almost all have the blue
line on their gums Burton's line).-
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