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London County Council 1894

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: Anthrax cases recent years—(continued).

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Anthrax cases recent years—(continued).

No.	Place of treatment.	Patient.	Sex.	Age.	Date of attack.	No. of day before applying for treatment	Seat of Charbon.	Condition of adjacent parts.	Constitutional symptoms.	Where employed.	Occupation.	Apparent source of infection.	Treatment.	Result.	Remarks.
40	Guy's Hospital	W. E. N	M.	28	Dec. 22 1883	2	Right cheek	Œdema	None	Fenning's wharf	Waterside labourer	Australian sheep's wool	Excision	Cured
41	Guy's Hospital	H. B.	M.	59	Dec. 27 1883	1	Right cheek	Stiff and swollen. Enlarged glands	None	Messrs. Flack and Chandler	Hide sorter	Hides	Excision, Paquelin's cautery	Cured
42	Guy's Hospital	J. R.	M.	48	Feb. 13, 1884	3	Neck	Œdema	Vomiting	Messrs. Barrow	Tanner	Bombay kips	Excision, zinc chloride	Died Feb. 17	P. M. Œdema of mediastinum, ulceration of stomach
43	Guy's Hospital	G. R.	M.	33	Mar. 11, 1884	6	Left cheek	(Edema, slough, vesicles and enlarged glands in neck	Temperature was 100°	Messrs. Anning & Cobb	Hide broker's labourer; is engaged in baling hides	Had been working with Bombay kips, opossum skins, and Cape hides	Excision, zinc chloride	Cured
44	Guy's Hospital	M. W.	M.	26	Mar. 15, 1884	3	Right side of neck	Oedema and central black slough with circle of vesicles	Nil	Messrs. Flack and Chandler	Hide broker's labourer	Chinese kips	Excision, zinc chloride	Cured
45	Guy's Hospital	W. B.	M.	39	Mar. 27, 1884	4	Right side of neck	Œdema	Pyrexia and coma	Messrs. Flack and Chandler	Warehouseman	Chinese kips	Excision and ipecacuanha	Died	P. M. Œdema of mediastinum, anthrax of small intestine
46	St. Bartholomew's Hospital	J. L.	M.	42	Mar. 27, 1884	11	Behind right ear	Œdema and brawny swelling	Vomiting, temperature, 101'4°	...	Waterside labourer	Apparently the same kips as in the two cases above.	Excision	Cured	No bacilli found.
47	Guy's Hospital	A. W.	M.	46	Mar. 31, 1884	3	Neck	Œdema	...	Butler's wharf	Leather carrier	Patient attributed it to rabbit skins, but he had been carrying Chinese kips, buffalo, and other hides.	Excision, zinc chloride. Tracheotomy	Died	P. M. Œdema of larynx, hæmorrhage in stomach.
48	Guy's Hospital	D. C.	M.	54	April 4, 1884	2	Back of left hand	Œdema	Nil	Gun and Shot wharf	Hide warehouseman	Arsenicated skins from China and Cape	Excision, zinc chloride	Cured
49	Guy's Hospital	W. S.	M.	37	April 7, 1884	2	Back of right hand.	Œdema	Enlarged supracondyloid glands	Messrs. Beresford and Co., St. O1ave's wharf	Tanner	Hides from China	Excision. Incisions in fore-arm and potassa fusa to wound	Cured
50	Guy's Hospital	J. P.	M.	44	April 13, 1884	5	Back of neck	Slight oedema	Slight vomiting; " out of sorts"	Warehouse in Tooleystreet	Hide sorter	Hides	Excision and strong carbolic acid	Cured
51	Guy's Hospital	P. G.	M.	23	April 17, 1884	3	No externa] wound	...	Temperature 10.'6°, coma, convulsions	Nash's wharf	Dock labourer	Chinese kips which he had been unloading	Pot.Brom. Digitalis. Inhalation of chloroform	Died	P. M. Anthrax of lungs, stomach, small intestine, and meninges of brain.
52 1	London Hospital	—	M.	44	1884	—	Angle of jaw	Extensive oedema	Temperature 100°, oedema glottidis	....	Docker	Engaged in loading a ship with hides a few days before admission to hospital.	...	Died	Bacilli found.
53	London Hospital	—	M.	38	1884	—	Left side of neck	...	...	...	Lighterman	Engaged in carrying hides	Excised	Cured