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Hast India Wool 92 Hast India Goat Hair 4 
Persian Wool 62 Alpaca 3 
Turkey Mohair 27 Cowhair 2 
Russian Camel Hair 10 Russian Goat Hair 1 
Van Mohair 8 Australian & N.Z. Wool 4 
Cape Mohair D Home Wool 2, 
Excellent as these figures are from the point of view of 
this country, they become still more significant if the 
quantity of wool imported into England from Australia and 
New Zealand be compared with that from, say, Persia. 
In 1913 the two figures were, 446,259,861 tbs. and 
1,864,720 tbs. respectively. 
Of the samples recorded in the same report as having 
been examined for Anthrax in 1916-17, the following were 
found infected :— 
Hast Indian Wool 29 Alpaca 4 
Persian Wool 21 Grey Cowhair 1 
Hast Indian Goat Hair 16 Scoured Oporto Wool 1 
Hgyptian Wool 4 
Between 1908 —17, 33°37 of samples of Kast Indian goat. 
hair examined bacteriologically were found infected with 
Anthrax. 
Of sixty-four cases of Anthrax occurring at Mazamet in 
France, where an enormous industry in the removal of 
wool from sheep skins is carried on, 35 were traced to 8. 
American, 22 to Spanish, 9 to North African, 4 to Hun- 
gariap, 3 to Cape, 1 to French, and 1 to Australian. 
It may be mentioned here that Dr. J. B. Cleland of the 
Board of Health, investigated 29 fatal cases of Anthrax 
in human beings occurring in New South Wales. Between 
1894 and 1904, 17 occurred amongst men associated with 
live stock, but with two exceptions these were men dealing 
with the animals or the carcases. No case was recorded 
of people working amongst wool being infected. 
