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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
During 1911 three notifications were received of cases residing in London and two of cases
residing outside but working inside the County boundary. An unnotified case is referred to in the
Stepney report. All the known cases recovered.
The available information is as follows:—
Bermondsey.—H. L., residing at Edmonton, was employed as a dock sorter. Illness attributed
to foreign hides. D. P., aged 58 years, residing in Bermondsey, was a leather dresser at a manufacturer's
premises where no raw hides were received. The origin of illness could not be traced.
A. A., aged 29 years, also resided in Bermondsey, and had been employed as a general labourer by
dealers in foreign hides. J. B., also was employed by dealers in foreign hides. He resided in Islington.
Southwark.—W. M., aged 25 years, had been working with grey hair received in a dressed condition
from certain firms. The patient was operated on and recovered. All the hair supplied had been
submitted to steam at a temperature over 212 deg. F. as required by the Home Office Regulations.
The practice with dark hair is to submit it to a temperature of 260 deg. F., but grey hair would be
seriously injured by this treatment. Dr. Millson, however, had all the grey hair unbound and exposed
to formalin vapour for several hours.
Stepney.—A man employed at Morocco Wharf unloading foreign skins contracted the disease.
Dr. Thomas refers to the removal from a licensed cowshed in the borough of a cow suffering
from anthrax. The cow had been in the shed two months, and Dr. Thomas suggests as a likely source
the oil cakes used for feeding. He states that these cakes, which are about 18 inches long and from
6 to 7 inches wide, are imported from India without sacks or covering, and suggests that skins or
hides may have been placed on them in the course of transit and thus infected the cakes.
Glanders.
No case of human glanders was reported during the year 1911.
Meteorology.