DEATH FROM ANTHRAX.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1922, Page 4

DEATH FROM ANTHRAX.

THE SOURCE OF INFECTION. SHAVING BRUSHES BLAMED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. “My advice to anyone who has a Japanese shaving brush is burn it,” said Dr. Telford, district health officer, today in discussing the recent death in i the Christchurch hospital from anthrax. He stated the bacteriological examination of the Japanese shaving brushes used by the anthrax patient would not be completed for one or two days, but he was hoping it would prove to be the source of infection. The two guinea pigs into which' l cultures -from the patient were injected have died, establishing the fact that anthrax was the cause of .death. The other examination is proceeding. No imported hides have been dealt with since May, 1921, according to Dr. Telford. He stated he did not think the infection was caused by hides during the man’s employment, but all sources of infection were being investigated. The importation of Japanese shaving brushes, Dr. Telford stated, was not prohibited in New Zea- | land, but they had now to be accom-

panied by a certificate that they were sterilised. The same applied to Japanese tooth brushes, but he was afraid of the brushes that had been imported before the new regulation was enforced, for the spores of the disease would remain alive for any length of time uni der ordinary conditions.