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...rickety shacks squatting around a woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation of Sackville...
...Stewart, overworked, lost resistance and last week went to bed with infantile paralysis. Probably his only ill effect will be a weak right leg. Puzzling is the apparent immunity of medical men to infectious or contagious diseases. All last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting...
Frightened livestockmen fought through the swarms to set smudges and dump oil on all exposed water. A few. fearing an epidemic of anthrax might follow, inoculated their stock. At Yazoo City, Miss., someone oiled his mules with axle grease; they were not bitten. The news spread and soon most mules in the adjacent territory were slick and glistening...
...concluding speech Dr. von Lewinski also waxed hot about anthrax germs. Admitting freely and officially that a German agent did hire Negroes to jab animals with anthrax, he asked in effect: "What of it?" He stressed the point that "only animals" were jabbed. "It is fantastic," cried Dr. von Lewinski, "for the Americans to assert that 'human life was endangered.' We all know that anthrax germs are not harmful to human beings...
Rats are occasionally anthrax carriers. The coroner in this case, after inspecting the corpse, certified that he died of anthrax...