![]() ![]() Dr Bell described the problem as 'a formidable disease, and one which could be fatal to woolsorters, but which could be completely removed by simple means'. Growing and experimenting on the bacillus. ![]() Investigation Board, Dr Eurich spent many years of dangerous work, ![]() In his capacity as bacteriologist to the Bradford Anthrax Who established in 1879 that “woolsorters’ disease” was indeed anthrax, and Drįritz Eurich. Respirators proved an unpopular items for the workers to use, as many workers were still not convinced that the disease was linked to the wool they were working with, so they just carried on regardless, with sometimes tragic consequences.ĭoctors played key roles in researching and removing the disease: Dr J.H. Lodge surmised thatĭeath was due to the build-up of dust, hair and lime in the lungs, and recommended the use of respirators by the men,Īnd chlorination of the air in order to dissipate and neutralise anyĭisease-causing miasmas. Medical practitioner performed an autopsy onĪ woo lso rter who had died following re spi ratory com pla int s. Of the earliest recorded cases came in 1855, when Dr Samuel Lodge Jnr, a local Supposition amongst operatives that these foreign fleeces were re sp onsi bl e for ca us in g a peculiar ly fa tal cond itio n am ongst woolsorters. Materials were used in Bradford’s wool trade coincided almost exactly with the Main suspect raw materials in the mid-nineteenthĬentury was mohair from Turkey. Use of ever-more-readily available imported fleeces, whose long fibres In Bradford began to make far more extensive Over the following twenty years, however, merchants and manufacturers Thackrah himself was to died two years later in 1833, from tuberculosis, another disease of the lungs. at least as far as Thackrah wasĬoncerned!.His view of the situation is understandable, bearing in mind that this was the first signs of the troubles ahead for the industry. There was thus no perceived risk which attended the job of Is employed for separating the fleece from the skin, with no sensible effect is In the early part of the nineteenth century the celebrated “father ofīritish occupational medicine”, Charles Turner Thackrah, an acknowledged expert on industrial diseases, noted in 1831 that 'woolsortersĪre occasionally annoyed with dust from the lime, which in some kinds of wool Death could result within a day or so, accompanied by terrible Husband’s contaminated clothes, or a boy who feel asleep on a bale of The “woolsorters’ disease”, or “la maladieĭe Bradford”, though other cases of people who had do direct contact with the raw wool were recorded, for example a woman, who washed her Workers who sorted the bales when they arrived in the mill, were most vulnerable to what became known as Pneumonia, and so-called blood-poisoning of a peculiar deadly nature which created open sores on the skin and a painful sudden decline in the victim. Workers quickly made the link between these wools with “bronchitis, These bales of wool were oftenĬontaminated with blood or skin and sometimes contained the anthrax bacillus. Many West Yorkshire Mill owners, particularly in Bradford, started producing textile material from the early 19th century, based on new woolsįrom overseas such as alpaca and mohair. ![]()
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