SHEARERS AND WET SHEEP
$ A DOCTOK'S EVIDENCE. By TeleeraDh—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, September 1. Giving evidence in the shearers' case, medical evidence, said he did not think Dr. Kater, in opposition to previous shearing wet sheep was responsible foi pustural disease amongst shearers. Th< diseaso was common the world over; ht had seen a great deal of it in cities. lit did not think sheep communicated the disease. The bronchial form of malignant pus tulo or anthrax is commonly known a; wool-sorters' disease. In one record o 23 cases there were four recoveries, ani eleven of the patients died within threi days. Precautions were first enforced ii handling'of lioeces at Bradford in ISSI and had tho effect of reducing tho mor tality between then and 1830 to two pe annum, whereas in a previous ten months during which inquiry was made, ther wcro nine cases of malignant pustule with two deaths, and twenty-threo case of internal anthrax, with nineteen deaths
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 5
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159SHEARERS AND WET SHEEP Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 5
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