The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-30
Anthrax Infection
Caught From Animal Hides.

So out Of all these observations Pasteur
reached the conclusion that there Is a general
law applicable 70 all Infections. And this law
Is that by lnoculatng living creatures human
or animaD With the attennated virus OF the re.
spective germs those creatures could be i'm
munlzed against the Infections for which those
respective germs are responsible
Anthrax Is widespread infection among
animals ann Is primary to them. Among human
beings Il Is secondary Infection being derived
wholly from animals. The animals most sus-
ceptible 70 the disease are sheep. cattle cameis
and horses. .)Ogs and swine are "refractory"-
that IL. they do not easily contract the disease
IN man anthrax occurs only from accidental
contact with the girus The disease occurs
thus In butchers shepherds. cattlemen meat In.
spectOrs. workers In horse hair makers OF
camels hair and horse hair brushes tannars
hide and WOOL transporters. wool corders and
spinners. workers IN the WOOL carpet Industry
and In ragpicksrs wool cardinE machipary
separates tho hhrns. evolving much dust from
which the bacilli are inhaled. Some ten years
ago there was en- endemic In Pennsylvania IN
which twelve tanners suffered. the hides on
which they worked having come. u seems from
China. Three years ago In England where
anthrax seems 70 prevail more than among u.s.
thirty-siK men Who bad unloaded and carted
hides from a liverpool wharf came down with
the disease. The wife OF a London dock Ia.
borer employed IN loading foreign hides BE-.
came infected through contact With her hus.
bands clothing: the germ was IN this case
found In the leather derived from the hides he
had carried after they had been submitted 10
the tanninE process.
Under the new reporting Law az 10 occu.
patiOnal diseases IN New York State only three
cases came 10 nght IN 1911.
A properly % the anthrax bacilH very early
discovered IL that they contain spores spores
are dwellings IN the substance Of the germ
which oftentime9 make n look ike the end of
. drumstck These spores have a remarkabls
power ~ resistauce, which they impart % the
germ. and which makes " very difficult 10 XII
them on Many other Fsrma besides those Of
anthraK contain spores But the anthrar
spores are perhaps the most resistant Of an
having bsen found 20 I've ten 10 tWenty.dvs
years.
The spors r. aiso The substance from whieh
new germs develop and multiply These an
thrax spores are found IN the dust attached TO
WOOL and IN pieces Of animal skin and IN animal
eNcrements. They have thus been found 10
pastures where Infected animals have been
confined. Pasteur believed that tho earthuorm
brings 20 the surface Of the earth spofes from
The buried carcasses ~ infected animals lie
found The bacillus On fields whore animals dead
from anthrax bad BEEN buried twelve years prs-
FlOualy. and be demonstrated the siruience of
those bacili ~ Injecting theu into guinea pfga
This observation "a ~ Interest. however. onir
uiih REGARD 30 animals Tor there is no recorded
instance who're human ANTHRAX has been due h.
contact uith the soil
The following Instructions fiVen By de
British authorities % their people should BE- of
Interest 20 us This side ~ the pond" in China
Persia, Turkey. Russia. The East Indies South
America and IN many other parts % the world
anthfan a. common. and Infected feecaa or
locks ore often shipped o. The home o7rta
Hence me groatest care should be taken IN
handlnE sueh hides and locks The disssss D