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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 in recent years—(continued) .

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Anthrax cases in recent years—(continued) .

No.	Place of treatment.	Patient.	Sex.	Age.	Date of attack.	No. of days before applying for treatment	Seat of Charbon.	Condition of adjacent parts.	Constitutional symptoms.	Where employed.	Occupation.	Apparent source of infection.	Treatment.	Result.	Remarks.
69	London Hospital	...	M.	44	July 7, 1886	4	Right side of neck	Brawny œdema	Temp. 103°	...	Slaughterer of foreign cattle	...	Excision	Cured	No bacilli found
70	St. Bartholomew's Hospital	C. D.	M.	30	July 27, 1886	6	Left side of neck	Much œdema	Collapsed, blue	...	Butcher	...	Not excised	Died	Bacilli in wound. None in viscera.
71	Guy's Hospital	J. H.	F.	42	Jan. 2, 1887	4	Forehead	Œdema	Headache and giddiness	...	Married	...	Excision and injection of phenol	Cured
72	Guy's Hospital	J. B.	M.	29	Jan. 28, 1887	4	Cheek, just under left eyelid	Œdema of neck and enlarged glands	Temp. 103°	...	Works in leather warehouse	Hides	Excision, injection of carbolic acid	Cured
73	Guy's Hospital	G. T.	M.	18	Jan. 29, 1887	1	Right foot and leg	Œdema	Nil	...	Dyer	Has to do with skins from the Cape and Australia	Excision and injection of phenol	Cured
74	Guy's Hospital	G. R.	M.	45	Mar. 6, 1887	4	Left side of neck	Great œdema	Temp. 101°	Works in warehouse adjoining Topping's wharf	Potato warehouseman	Works next door to a warehouse where hides are stored. Says some potatoes had been pitched among the hides	Excision, zinc chloride, laryngotomy	Died	P. M.—Anthrax of meninges and meningeal hærrhages, anthrax of small intestine.
75	Reported by Mr. Reilly	H. I. S.	M.		April 12, 1887	2	Nape of neck	Œdema and brawny thickening	Prostration, vomiting, convulsions	...	Master tanner	Had been sorting hides on the 9th	Excision	Died	On the morning before patient died his head was fixed rigidly backwards and tonic and clonic spasms of muscles of trunk and limbs supervened.
76	Guy's Hospital	H. S.	M.	23	Aug. 7, 1887	5	Forehead	Œdema	Nil	...	Sailor	...	Excision	Cured
77	London Hospital	...	M.	50	1887	7	Left hand	Much œdema of arm	Œdema glottidis	...	...	Seven days before admission wounded left hand with a hook	Incisions	Died
78	St. Bartholomew's Hospital	E. D.	M.	22	May 7 1888	10	Left side of neck	Not much swelling	Nil	Messrs. List and Son	Horsehair dresser	...	Excised	Cured	Bacilli found.
79	Guy's Hospital	C. P.	M.	22	June 21, 1888	6	Right external canthus of eye	Hyperæmic	Nil 4.	Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks & Co.	Hide sorter	Bombay hides	Excised and dressed with powdered ipecacuanha	Cured
80	Guy's Hospital	H. W.	M.	43	July 7, 1888	3	Right side of neck near angle of jaw	Œdema and enlarged lymphatic glands	Temperature 102o	...	Carman	....	Excision	Died	P. M. Intestinal anthrax.
81	Guy's Hospital	W. H.	M.	21	Oct. 30, 1888	1	Left side of neck	Hyperæmic and œdematous; enlarged glands	Rigors, headache, nausea	...	Works in hides	Hides	Excision. Injection of carbolic and tannic acid and creolin	Cured	Erysipelas supervened.