Show Daily Health Service How Hmo to Avoid Anthrax 1 By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor the American Med lea ical Association and of the Health Magazine Ma The anthrax bacillus was one of ot the first germs discovered by Pasteur It Itis is found in hair hides fresh of infected human beings and animals It usually gets into the body from contact of a wound or scratch with some of the material containing the organism from inhaling the spores of the organism from hrom eating insufficiently cooked or infected meat and possibly sometimes by transmission transmission sion sian from some infected animal to toman toman toman man by the medium of ot the fly l or the mosquito Seven days after arter the thc germs get into the body th the symptoms appear The disease is manifest in the form of boils that contain the organism These open and discharge and thema from the discharge may infect other people Epidemics have occurred occurred oc oc- oe- oe in the United States due to hair from infected sh shaving lvin brushes brush Imported from Japan They have also occurred in tanneries where Infected infected in In- hides have not been properly controlled Because of the great dani danger r ot of hi condition public health hm hui worked out a a series cries of ot measures 1 f fj the control of the disease An naJi that Are infected should be isolated and kept away other animals Animals that die of anthrax should be promptly without attempting to remove skin or otherwise opening the bodyl In the thc plants wh where c hides a h hs d dIed ed every with any ay bo pimple or bruise on the skIrt skin shu immediately report to the ph- ph for examination In order to prevent ent the spread tf cC- cC this disease to people outside tat fas- tories or tanneries where hides hideg ut art handled it is recommended that an in an t waste water or sewage from such sueh f lu J fac-J i tories tones be thoroughly beo fore tore permitted outside the plant plans Bt 1 cause of the possibility that anthrax i germs may infect the haid it is recommended that tanneries woolen mills be provided with pr prop ventilating apparatus Finally the sale of ot hides from iD ii animals Infected with anthrax should be prohibited i |