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TETANUS 



now and again, attention is called to some wholly 

 unsuspected risk of the disease. For example, 

 certain cases of tetanus occurred in Dundee among 

 workers at the jute-mills there : — 



"The last victim was a female worker in the 

 jute-mill, who, six days after a crushed and lacerated 

 wound of the foot, developed tetanus and died 

 within twenty-four hours. Some of the dust, taken 

 from under the machine in which the foot was 

 crushed, was found to contain an unusually large 

 number of tetanus-bacilli. The source of the jute 

 used is India." {Medical News, August 1900.) 



Again, at the Gebaer Anstalt at Prague, in 1899, 

 an outbreak of tetanus occurred, with several 

 deaths ; but it was stopped when a preventive dose 

 of the antitoxin was given to the new patients on 

 admission. 



Again, an amazing number of deaths from 

 tetanus, in the United States, are due to wounds of 

 the hands with toy-pistols. It is said that after the 

 Fourth of July festivities in 1899, no less than 83 

 cases of tetanus were reported, 26 of them in and 

 around New York. Almost all of them were due 

 to gunshot wounds of the hand with toy-pistols : 

 the unclean wad of the cartridge, made of refuse 

 paper picked up in the streets, penetrates deep into 

 the tissues of the hand, taking the germs of the 

 disease with it, out of the reach of surgical dis- 

 infection. These cases of tetanus in the United 

 States from toy-pistol wounds are so frequent, that 

 immunisation has been recommended for them. 



