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...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...
...blood of people stricken with Black Plague. Those probably were the first germs ever noted. As microscopes were improved more kinds of animalcula were observed, and doctors gradually associated them with disease. But not until 1876 was a germ proved to be a cause of a disease. The disease: anthrax in cattle. The germ: Bacillus anthracis. The discoverer: Robert Koch...
...Anthrax is a disease of sheep and cattle which humans who work with hides or wool may get through skin abrasions. It produces pustular swellings which may become gangrenous. A rarer form of the disease is pulmonary, from inhaling dried spores in dusty workrooms. Three months ago a young Sackville mill employe died of anthrax. Since then four other Sackvillians have been stricken. All recovered...
Owner Sack had the ground around the mill cleansed with burning gasoline, equipped his workers with masks and gloves. But he did not decide to evacuate the town until the parents of a child who had lost an eye from anthrax threatened to sue him. Last week he bluntly explained that workers are covered by industrial insurance, but that his company could not pay compensation for illness or death of nonworkers & children...
While a few families were preparing to move out, Pennsylvania's Health, Housing and Labor Departments moved in on Sackville. The Health Department told residents they need not move, since anthrax is infectious but not contagious and hence there was no danger of an epidemic. The Housing Department launched an investigation with a view to cleaning up the hovels provided for Sack workers. The Labor Department gave Owner Sack 30 days to install sanitary lunch, dressing and toilet facilities, make his mill a decent place to work...